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THE PLAN OF REDEMPTION 


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Copyright, 

1916 

BY 

Essek W. Kenyon. 
Spencer, Mass. 



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CONTENTS 


Introduction 5 

First Words 14 

The Father Fact 16 

The Family Fact 18 

1. The Reason for Creation 19 

2. Man’s Treason 31 

3. The Dominion of Death 52 

4. Satan 67 

5. Hell 88 

6. Man’s Need of a Mediator 107 

7. The Incarnation 121 

8. How God Can Be Just 134 

9. The Sin Bearer 151 

1 0. Eternal Life 178 

11. The New Birth 185 

12. The Holy Spirit 208 

13. The New Law of the Family ....219 

14. The Household of God 231 

15. Claiming our Rights 244 

16. God Wants Transfigured Bodies ..259 

1 7. Mortality and Immortality 265 


INTRODUCTION 


The Roman Catholic Church takes away the Bible 
from the people and gives it to the priesthood. 

The Protestant Church takes away its theology from 
the people and gives it to the clergy. 

In the one case the people have ready-made dogma 
which they must accept without reflection. 

In the other case they have a system of ethics with 
a slight doctrinal seasoning. 

In either case the laity are denied their full rights. 

The paternal method of the Papish Church insures 
stability of organization and perpetuity of crystal- 
lized dogma, as the parish is dependent on the priest, 
nay — the parish is the priest. 

The nursery method of the Protestant Church guar- 
antees neither stability of doctrine nor of organization. 

It does, however, offer higher ideals of life, but sets 
up no Jacob’s ladder for their attainment. 

The great popularity of Mr. Sheldon’s book, “In 
His Steps,’’ proves that Protestantism has not yet ad- 
vanced far beyond the try-stage of the conscious 
“Imitation of Christ’’ by Thomas a’ Kempis over into 
the trust-stage and freedom-in-Christ experience of the 
Apostle Paul. 

The Bible in the home and public worship in the 


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common vernacular offer tremendous advantages, 
but these advantages are largely neutralized from the 
fact that the people are deprived of a simple systematic 
theology for their edification and protection and are 
left to be preyed upon by every mountebank with a new 
“revelation” who has the business genius to market his 
goods. 

Lest we be charged with drawing conclusions from 
false premises we need only to point out the following 
facts : 

1 . All dogmatic and theological works have been 
written by scholars for theological students, teachers 
and pastors, and, until recently, incorporated the mode 
of thought and heavy language of the Latin Fathers and 
the Fathers of the Reformation. 

These works are as safely locked from the common 
people as is the United States sub-treasury on Wall 
Street. 

2. The Sunday School which might be a training 
school in doctrine for the advanced classes offers in- 
struction chiefly in sacred history and geography, ethics 
and social betterment, with only a modicum of doctrinal 
teaching, given without any connection. 

The doctrinal Pauline Epistles are an unknown 
land. 

3. The catechisms taught in the ritualistic Churches 
are, by their nature, very formal and memorial, pro- 
voking but a minimum of reflection and even less search 
for Bible evidence. 

4. Denominational religious journals and literature 


INTRODUCTION 7 

are devoted to denominational enterprises and beautiful 
ethical teaching. 

Volumes of sermons are devoted almost uniformly to 
applied Christianity. 

5. Theological students in the divinity schools are 
advised not to be too doctrinal or argumentative in their 
preaching, as dogma has lost its appeal and life is the 
only thing worth while after all. 

Furthermore, the doctrine they have studied could not 
be passed on to the people in its present form ; at best, 
it is only intended to be a sort of filter through which 
their social and moral ideas may be clarified and 
purified. 

The pulpit has rung true to these ex cathedra 
counsels. 

6. Within a few decades, possibly dating from the 
“Briggs heresy,” there has been a shifting view-point 
in the theological world of “scholars,” which can be 
traced to the influence of German rationalism, and to 
our scientific age. 

Old foundations of faith are declared obsolete. 

The supernatural in religion cannot stand the scien- 
tific test. 

Truth is relative. 

Authority abides in the inner consciousness. 

Each man makes his own articles of faith and the 
slogan is “social regeneration” and the “universal 
brotherhood of man;” the means? are educational, 
ethical, social, medical, and scientific: the method is 
developmental and evolutional; the Utopian goal is 


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the Kingdom of God on earth established by the 
congress of nations on Christian principles, with 
universal peace and brotherhood, but without the per- 
sonal presence of the King of Kings and Lord of 
Lords. 

Fortunately for the people these scholarly recensions 
of theology are largely confined to theological or 
philosophical journals) to which they have little access 
and for which they have less taste. 

Furthermore, the graduates of the “New Theol- 
ogy” are advised to administer it in homeopathic doses, 
as the people are not yet prepared to receive it. 

7. Many books, non-technical papers and tracts of 
real spiritual value are accessible to the people and are 
largely read, but are chiefly devotional and inspira- 
tional; if doctrinal, they present only one phase of 
doctrine, such as the Second Coming, Prophecy, The 
Jewish Question, Faith, or Prayer. 

We look in vain for a work in doctrine for the 
masses, written in simple and attractive language, that 
presents sanely, Scripturally, logically and sequential- 
ly the Plan of Redemption. 

8. Probably not one in a hundred of our Church 
members could pass an examination in the fundamen- 
tals of Christian faith, or be able to give a “reason con- 
cerning the hope” that he enjoys without substituting 
feelings for facts and opinions for realities. 

It would be a fair test to ask the leading members 
of any Church to explain, “How Christ could justly 
suffer for the guilty? 


INTRODUCTION 9 

What was the character of His substitutional sac- 
rifice — physical or otherwise? 

On what principle of Justice can a sinner derive 
any benefit from Christ’s death? 

What is the distinction between Justification, Re- 
generation, and Sanctification? 

The answers would prove very disappointing. 

Yet the fundamentals of History, Geography, 
Mathematics, Language and the Sciences, our child- 
ren are supposed to understand at the age of sixteen or 
seventeen when they graduate from High School. 

9. Within the past twenty years various cults, such 
ay Christian Science, New Thought in all its ramifica- 
tions, and Millennial Dawnism have gained a tremen- 
dous following, which has been drafted almost entire- 
ly from the nominal membership of our Protestant 
Churches. 

The Romish Church is fortified against such 
inroads. 

What humiliation we have suffered ! What losses ! 
What tears ! Our feeble efforts at rebuttals how vain ! 
Our spasmodic attempts to release our friends and 
brethren from the net of the fowler how futile ! 

The explanation is simple. 

We have tried to grow trees without roots. 

“Sound Doctrine’’ is the root of Christian faith and 
Christian character. 

We welcome this volume, “THE FATHER 
AND HIS FAMILY,’’ as a step in the right direc- 
tion. 


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It is writtten in popular style and employs terms that 
the people can understand. 

We venture the assertion that had this book been 
published twenty-five years ago with the financial and 
advertising facilities to give it a world-wide dissemina- 
tion, that Russelism and Eddyism would have died of 
a congestive chill in infancy with no monuments reared 
to their honor; such cult? can only thrive in the dark 
atmosphere of ignorance or the dank soil of superstition. 

The author of this work has devoted faithful and 
loving study to the Word. 

By his terse, epigrammatic, and logical style he is 
able to clothe old truths with a freshness and vigor that 
makes them seem new. 

He is too independent a thinker to follow slavishly 
the paths of his predecessors. 

Yet a careful reading of the book will demonstrate 
the fact that he is a mighty defender of the old land- 
marks, as well as a pioneer in his search for truth. 

But whether every conclusion is accepted or not 
by the reader, he will find such concentrated food in 
this book that he will be driven to his knees and driven 
to hist Bible and driven to thought as perhaps he has 
not been for years. 

If the result be a quickened spiritual appetite and a 
normal spiritual digestion and a growing soul, this book 
will not have been written in vain. 

Church History demonstrates the fact that all great 
religious awakenings have had a doctrinal foundation. 

With Augustine it was the utter Depravity of Man 


INTRODUCTION 


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and the Sovereign Authority of God; with Luther it 
was Justification by Faith; with Calvin it was the 
Sovereignty of God and his Eternal Decrees; with the 
Wesleys it was Sanctification and the Work of the 
Holy Spirit; with Jonathan Edwards it was the Moral 
Responsibility of the Sinner; with Finney it was God’s 
Moral Government and the Sinner’s Repentance; with 
Moody it was God’s Grace and Christian Assurance. 

With modern evangelistic movements the slogan has 
been, “Get right with God;** with certain noble inter- 
denominational enterprises, such as the Christian and 
Missionary Alliance and The Laymen’s Missionary 
Movement, the emphasis is placed upon Obedience to 
“The Great Commission.*’ 

We venture the opinion that the battle cry of the 
coming religious awakening will be the Inspiration of 
the Bible, the Deity of Christ, and the New Family 
teachings contained in this Book. 

This volume, “THE FATHER AND HIS 
FAMILY,’* may prove to be in the van of the great 
fight that is to be waged in defence of the “Faith that 
was once for all delivered unto the saints.’* 

Francis S. Bernauer 


7029 Eggleston Avenue, 
Chicago, May 12, 1916. 


INTRODUCTION 

THE 

SECOND 

To few men is it given to be both evangelist and 
teacher. 

The thousands who have heard the Author discuss 
on the public Platform the mighty themes of his stalwart 
Gospel, know that he is God-called to the work of 
evangelism. 

That he is a profound student of the Scriptures, a 
seer quick to discern the spirit as well as the letter, and 
able to set forth his message with the vivid phrase, the 
striking figure, the luminous method, the cogent argu- 
ment, and the warm sympathy of the born teacher, 
this volumn will prove. 

In this age of compromises, apologies and peradven- 
tures, it is refreshing to find a writer on religious sub- 
jects who strikes the note of certainty. 

The positive tone us«d by Mr. Kenyon is not the 
cock-sure-ness of the dilettante. 

The vital truth in his system of doctrine has been 
demonstrated not merely by skillful dialectics, but by 
the logic of results. 

When thru long years one’s interpretations of Script- 
ure has been uniformly attended by definite and perma- 


INTRODUCTION 


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nant conversions, the edification of the believers, the 
moral and social transformation of communities, one 
has the right to speak with authority. 

To some readers this Book will give a shock. 

So also will a cold plunge. 

The effect depends upon the state of the circulation. 

If the heart is right, one will rise “with forehead 
white and eyes like stars.” 

The writer of this brief introduction does not agree 
with every position, scientific or theological taken in 
this Book, but in several very successful revival move- 
ments led by Mr. Kenyon, he has seen the author’s 
leading doctrines triumphantly vindicated by a multi- 
tude of moral miracles. 

If any dead or moribund soul will allow the spirit 
and message of this volume to lay itself upon him, as 
the prophet lay upon the Shunamite’s son, he too will 
wax warm, perhaps sneeze seven timer, and certainly 
open his eyes. 

W. Quenton Genge 

Methodist Parsonage, 

Milo, Maine. 


FIRST WORDS 


Thinking men and women of this age have been re- 
belling against the orthodox interpretation of the Bible 
as represented in denominational creeds. 

A spirit of unrest has seized the heart of Christen- 
dom, many of the old landmarks of Faith have been 
destroyed by modern Criticism. 

The Faith of millions has been shattered, the Church 
has lost its grip on the imagination of the age, the min- 
istry are wandering in the byways of unbelief, they 
have found an interrogation point on every signboard of 
theological thought. 

There is no coherence of doctrine in any of our great 
denominational bodies. 

This quotation from Judges aptly fits these times: 
“In those days there was no king in Israel, every man 
did that which was right in his own eyes.** 

We are confronted with questions that demand an 
answer. 

Here is the world, a universe, a human family, why 
are they? 

Science has not answered the question nor attempted 
to solve the problem. 

We came to believe in the early days of our in- 
vestigation that there could be no enduring system of 


FIRST WORDS 


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Science, Philosophy or Theology that was not based 
upon an intelligent answer to the age-long problem of 
the Why of Creation. 

Reader, allow me to be very frank with you, I be- 
lieve the time has come for a restatement of the Plan 
of Redemption in language that the common people 
can understand. 

I believe that the answer to these questions will be 
found in the following pages. 

I believe that the Faith of those who read will be 
strengthened, that knowledge will take the place of 
vague speculation and strength, the place of weakness. 


THE FATHER FACT 


The Father Fact and the Family Fact are the two 
mightiest facts of the Bible, and the Plan of Redemp- 
tion swings about this two-fold center. 

These two basic facts of revelation have been cov- 
ered by the verbiage of Theological speculation. 

The whole Plan of Redemption is : 

First, the Father God’s Dream for a Family. 

Second, a Sin Catastrophe. 

Third, the Dream Coming True. 

Fourth, the Family Home, the New Heavens and 
the New Earth. 

The entire Plan of Redemption is a revelation of 
the heart-hunger and loneliness of the great Father 
God; the first step in this stupendous drama of Cre- 
ation was God’s dream and His blueprints of Man’s 
beautiful Home. 

No prospective husband-father ever dreamed more 
ardently of the home-nest than did the Father God 
dream over the contemplated home of His child — the 
human, and so He took ages on ages to build an earth- 
home, to store it with treasures that only His mind 
could conceive and His power create. 

After He perfected an earth, He placed the stars 
and suns and moons and wonderful constellations 


THE FATHER FACT 


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throughout space, and to each of these seen as well as 
unseen worlds He fastened the earth by the invisible 
cords of gravitation. 

Each star and constellation is held in its place by the 
word of His power and each one has a regular course 
marked out over which it travels. 

Each star and planet, each constellation and group 
has its own office work to perform for the earth, God’s 
wonderful home for His human. His child. His family. 

This book is a story of Love’s processes to save man 
from himself and present him a faultless, happy family 
in the presence of the living Father God. 


THE FAMILY FACT 


Christianity is not a religion, it is a family, a Father 
and his children. 

It differs from all the religions in the world in this 
respect. 

It is not a creed, nor a set of Doctrines, nor a body of 
Ethics. 

Creeds have been made out of it. 

Laws have been made to govern it. 

Doctrines have been formulated from its teachings 
and the world’s best Ethics have been its products. 

They are all parts of it, segments of the great Family 
Fact. 

The genius of Christianity is, that its God is the 
great Family God of the Universe. 

Christianity is not a science any more than your 
family is a Science but it is based upon scientific facts. 

Christianity is not a Philosophy but it is the founda- 
tion of all true Philosophies. 

Christianity is not a Theology and strange to say its 
Theologians have proved its loving enemy. 


CHAPTER 

THE 

FIRST 

THE REASON FOR CREATION 

Creation shows the Designer’s Master Hand. 

Blind Chance is not its author. 

Whether you explore the mysteries of the mineral 
kingdom, the vegetable or the animal, from the lowest 
to the highest the marks of a well thought-out design 
confronts you everywhere. 

Nothing has been left to Chance. 

Creation has been governed with the iron hand of 
fixed laws. 

The microscope reveals this even among the most 
minute forms of life. 

That same law prevails from the lowest germ cell to 
the highest forms of Creation. 

An intelligent purpose pervades it all. 

There is a grand focal objective in every step of 
Creation. 

He who laid the foundation of the earth had the 
same plan and purpose, the same blueprints as He who 
put the last finishing touches upon it. 


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It may seem strange but nevertheless it is true that Sci- 
ence has given no adequate reason for Creation. 

She has been silent here and yet this is where she 
should have launched her first ship of exploration. 

There can be no scheme of Cosmogony that does not 
explain the Why of Creation. 

If Creation is a child of blind, unreasoning, unde- 
signing Chance, then Chance is a miracle worker and 
worthy of our adoration. 

Philosophy, that recognizes no Holy of Holies in 
any department of human endeavor, has not attempted 
to answer this question and has left no footprints in 
these halls, her voice has n*ver been heard in this 
debate. 

The poet alone has tuned his lyre to this lofty theme. 

Theology, the Mother of the Sciences and Arts and 
the Inspiration of all Philosophies has never yet given 
a reason for Creation. 

She has built a mighty superstructure without a foun- 
dation, she has argued fluently of Divine Sovereignty 
and Freedom of Will, but she has been mute here. 

Her theologians have found more pleasure in 
abstract Theology than in personal dealings with God, 
found more joy in Metaphysics than in divine know- 
ledge, more pleasure in the opinions of men than in the 
Word of God. 

Neither Science, Philosophy or Theology have ever 
yet been able to write a textbook that would survive a 
generation* 


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We have forgotten that Truth is Eternal, while 
Theories are time limited. 

No one thinks of revising the multiplication table. 

Truth has never needed a revision. Theories are re- 
vised from age to age. 

After all the assaults and ridicule hurled at the first 
three Chapters of Genesis they still stand as the only 
intelligent mind-satisfying reason for Creation. 

It may be interesting for us to notice first, that that 
portion of Scripture declares that the Earth is the reason 
for all the heavenly bodies that swing in their mighty 
orbits through dark, illimitable space. 

GENESIS HISTORY 

Genesis compels a complete reconstruction of our 
Theories of Creation. 

Genesis 1 :14-19 says, “And God said, Let there 
be lights in the firmament of heaven to divide the day 
from the night; and let them be for signs, and for 
seasons, and for days and years: and let them be for 
lights in the firmament of heaven to give light upon the 
earth : and it was so. 

“And God made the two great lights; the greater 
light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the 
night : he made the stars also. 

“And God set them in the firmament of heaven to 
give light upon the earth and to rule over the day and 
over the night, and to divide the light from the dark- 
ness • and God saw that it was good. 


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“And there was evening and there was morning, a 
fourth day.” 

You will notice in this statement that the Earth was 
already created and held in its place by the Word of 
God. 

Now He begins to place suns, moons, stars and 
planets in their respective positions in the firmament to 
minister to this Earth, to divide the day and the night, 
to give us signs and seasons, days and years. 

It would seem from this Scripture that the Earth is 
the reason for the Universe. 

As far as we know from the best Astronomers, our 
Earth is the only planet in the Universe that has life 
upon it. 

If this be true, it proves that the Earth holds a place 
in the plan and purpose of God that is amazing. 

To refer once more to our quotation from Scripture, 
“to let them be for signs and for seasons, and for days 
and years and to give light upon the Earth.” 

We know that the tides of the oceans and seas are 
effected by the influence of the heavenly bodies. 

We know that heat and cold, drought and storm are 
the direct results of planetary influence. 

We know that storms can be predicted for certain 
localities on this continent by the position and influence 
of certain planets. 

This is being done from week to week, it has become 
one of the assured Sciences. 

An earthquake can be predicted years ahead because 
certain planets will focalize their influence for an hour 


the reason for creation 23 

upon a certain point of the Earth’s surface which will 
cause a convulsion. 

We know that frosts and hot waves are predicted 
months ahead by the sure knowledge of planetary posi- 
tions. 

From these deductions we see clearly that the planets 
were placed in the heavens to give us seasons, to be 
signs, to be the continual companions and servants, al- 
ways ministering to the Earth. 

Once more we want to state that this proves that the 
Earth is the reason for that great star spangled universe 
we call the heavens. 

To illustrate this it might be interesting to relate a 
story that is being told of a noted astronomer who was 
discussing with his son one day the influence of the 
heavenly bodies on the Earth. 

He made this remark, “I have noticed that at cer- 
tain times the Earth is lifted out of her orbit or 
path by an unseen body lying out beyond the reach of 
our most powerful telescope,. If ever they build a lar- 
ger telescope I wish you would go and search the heav- 
ens and find out what it is that so effects this planet of 

ft 

ours. 

When the great Lick Observatory was reared with 
its powerful telescope this son traveled across sea and 
continent and one clear night turned the great telescope 
against the dark space in the heavens where this unseen, 
uncharted planet reached down its mighty hand and 
gripped the Earth. 

After gazing awhile, suddenly there appeared a 


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tiny speck of light, it was a star swinging in its giant 
orbit away out on the frontier of the Universe. 

He saw the planet that had so strangely effected the 
earth. It was millions of miles beyond the farthest star 
that the human eye had ever seen. 

Yet, this giant star sweeping on in its great orbit 
comes regularly every few years near enough to our 
planet, so it can reach its mighty hand of gravitation 
down through the unmeasured space and grip our little 
earth and lift it out of its orbit. 

As a ship on the ocean responds to the slightest 
touch of the helm so our Earth responds to the touch of 
that distant sentinel and veers swiftly out of its course, 
then when the planet’s grip is loosed, back into its path 
it comes and goes rhythmically on its way. 

This establishes one fact that neither planet, nor sun, 
nor moon, nor star in all the vast universe but has its in- 
fluence upon this little planet of ours. 

How it thrills the heart to realize that this Earth of 
ours, so small that one thousand of them can be lost in 
the sun is yet the center and reason for the Universe. 

To-night this old Earth of ours is being held as safe- 
ly in the embrace of those uncounted and uncharted 
planets as a child in its mother’s arms. 

The heavens are to-night Earth’s only perfect time 
piece; no watch or clock man has ever buih can give 
us perfect time ; but he who knows the path of the stars 
knows that every star or sun, or planet will pass a cer- 
tain given point in the great unpathed space on schedule 
time. 


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25 


The star may not have been seen for thousands of 
years but she will appear at the cross-roads of the 
heavens, not one second ahead, nor one second behind 
her schedule. 

Oh! the wonder of the Architect, the marvei of the 
Creator, the might of the Sustainer of this great uni- 
verse of ours ! 

THE REASON FOR THE EARTH 

If the Earth is the reason for the stellar heavens, 
what is the reason for the Earth ? 

Away back before the Morning Stars sang their first 
anthem to the heart of the lonely Father God, before 
the foundations of the Earth were laid, before the first 
rays of light ever passed through the dark expanse, the 
heart of the Great Creator God had a yearning, deep, 
mighty, eternal. 

It was the primordial passion for children. 

The Father heart of the Creator God longed for sons 
and daughters. 

This yearning passion took form and God planned 
a universe for his Man and in the heart of that universe 
he purposed a Home. 

There is no Time with God. 

Time belongs to day and night, to sun and moon. 

The Omnipotent God was not hampered by days 
nor nights nor years. 

When Love laid the foundations of this mighty uni- 
verse He planned, He purposed it all to be the Home 
of His Man. 


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It was to be Man’s birthplace, Man’s Garden of 
Delights, Man’s University where he would learn to 
know his God. 

Love took plenty of time. 

Ages on ages He wrought storing up treasures of 
all kinds of wealth for his Man. 

He filled Earth’s bosom with deposits of iron, 
copper, silver, and gold, with uncounted varieties of 
metals, chemicals and forces that would respond to the 
touch of his Man. 

He covered the face of the Earth with mountains, 
valleys, ravines, plateaus, and prairies, lovely rivulets 
and mighty rivers, a garment of green intermingled with 
many colored flowers that thrilled with joy the heart of 
God’s Man. 

The mountain sides are covered with giant forests 
whose trees are filled with singing birds and droning 
insects whose dainty wings beat against the genial wind 
and make a melody fit for His Man. 

Fruits and vegetables abounded in profusion spelling 
out in nature’s language the love of the great Father 
heart of God for his Man. 

This interprets the great dream, the heart plan the 
great Father God has for his Man. 

The Architect knew on what sections of the earth’s 
surface the human would segregate, and there He 
placed His great deposits of copper, of iron ore, of 
coal, limestone, and all the other natural resources and 
chemicals necessary for the arts, mechanics, and the 


sciences. 


THE REASON FOR CREATION 


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Wherever there are vast prairies for grain support for 
the millions of earth’s teeming population, there you will 
find the greatest deposits of chemicals and metals and 
minerals and oils. 

He grouped them so they would be easy to work: 
Chance did not rule here. 

Had platinum and gold been as plentiful as iron, 
and iron as scarce as gold, there never would have been 
a mechanical age. 

The steel rails that gird the earth, that bind nations 
together would have been impossible; the mighty 
Mogul engine could never have been built of gold or 
copper. 

The great Architect of human need and joy knew 
man’s need while yet unborn, and in Creation’s won- 
drous plan these needs were met. 

ANIMAL KINGDOM 

In the animal creation it will be interesting to note, 
that there are today approximately twenty- five domes- 
tic animals. 

Scientists have tried to tell us that the dog and house 
cat were formerly wild, have simply been domesticated, 
but nature contradicts it. 

There is a dog to meet every need of man from the 
Arctic to the equator and from the rising to the setting 
of the sun. 

And the strange thing about it is, no wild animals as 
yet have ever been able to take the place of our 
domestics. 


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They tell us that the dog belongs to the wolf family 
but who has ever been able to take a wolf of any species 
and tame it and make a lap-dog of it, or a guard and 
companion to his children, or daily associate on the 
farm or home? 

You may keep him twenty generations and he is 
still a wolf. 

If you let our faithful friend of the human go wild in 
the forest for twenty generations, then capture and take 
him to your home, within a week he is your servant and 
friend and slave who will lay his life down for you. 

The dog was created by God Almighty to be the 
faithful servant and companion and lover of man. 

Our common house-cat was created to be the house- 
hold friend and chum of children and childhood, and 
pet of the aged. 

When the wise Master Builder made the horse he 
designed him purposely to meet the needs of his Man as 
servant and beast of burden. 

He left a place in its mouth where no teeth grow that 
a bit might be held without inconvenience, so that the 
horse might be able to eat its food with the bit still in 
its mouth. 

had space, to show the wise provision of an intelligent 

So I might speak of the other domestic animals, if we 
God. 

Had the cow been given the fierce disposition of a 
hyena or lion, she would have been totally unfit for do- 
mestic purposes. 


THE REASON FOR CREATION 


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Had the dog been given the disposition of the wolf or 
fox, or had our cat been given the disposition of the 
tiger, they would have been unsafe for our home. 

Had the horse been given the disposition of the zebra 
it never would have been man’s beast of burden and in- 
separable friend. 

No, He who created man knew that man would 
need domestic animals that would respond to the touch 
of love ; animals that would pine and yearn for human 
companionship and that would gladly obey the human 
voice. 

VEGETABLE KINGDOM 

It will be of intense interest for us to look at the great 
variety of woods that were created for Man. 

There are 183 varieties of the Eucalyptus family 
alone. These with the oak, the sighing pine, the 
laughing maple, the delicate willow, the lonely poplar, 
all were created to fill a need and want in humanity’s 
development and expansion. 

There are over one hundred thousand classified vari- 
eties in the vegetable kingdom ; there are over five hun- 
dred thousand insects that feed on these hundred thou- 
sand varieties. 

Every plant, shrub, vegetable, fruit or tree of the en- 
tire vegetable kingdom was designed and planned for 
man's use, and as man grows intellectually and delves 
into the mysteries of the vegetable kingdom he is finding 
there the answer to thousands of needs that are contin- 
ually coming in this great mechanical age. 


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THE REASON FOR MAN 

If the Earth is the reason for the heavens, and Man 
is the reason for the Earth, what is the reason for Man? 

There is only one answer and it is very simple: the 
lonely heart of the great Father God. 

Paul tells us in Ephesians “all Fatherhood heads up 
in God, whether the families on earth or the families 
in heaven.’* 

God’s heart yearned for children, craved sons and 
daughters. 

He had angels to minister to Him as servants, but he 
wanted children, so he spent with Love’s wonderful 
patience, age on age in the preparation of the Earth and 
Heavens for His Man. 

If this be true, and true it is, then Man is a most 
wonderful Being. 

If God so wanted Man and so loved Man that he 
spent millions of years in preparation for him, what a 
place that Man must hold in His heart, in His dream, 
in His Eternity ! 


CHAPTER 

THE 

SECOND 


MAN'S TREASON 

Is the present condition of sin normal? 

Are we living under God Almighty’s ideal and plan 
for the human? 

Are sin, sickness and death a part of God’s plan? 

Are hatred, jealousy, and murder a part of God’s 
plan? 

Are the unnatural fratricidal wars that sweep the 
earth a part of God’s original purpose? 

Did God have an original plan without sin, without 
pain, without grief, without hate, without death? 

NATURE OF MAN 

We believe that God’s heart is the reason not only 
for creation but for creation’s crown — Man; that it 
was the loneliness, the heart hunger of Deity that 
caused man’s being brought forth. 

“Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus 
Christ, who hath blessed us with every spiritual bless- 
ing in the heavenly places in Christ ; even as he chose us 
in him before the foundation of the world, that we 


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should be holy and without blemish before him, in love 
having foreordained us unto adoption as sons through 
Jesus Christ unto himself, according to the good pleas- 
ure of his will.” Ephesians 1 : 3-5. 

Man was marked out for sonship, before the foun- 
dation of the world. Love foreordained us unto adop- 
tion as sons through Jesus Christ unto himself. 

In other words, before the foundation of the world 
He purposed a family, and Man is the answer to that 
purpose. 

What kind of being was Man in the beginning? 

In Genesis 1 , it declares that Man was created in 
God’s own image after His own likeness. 

What is meant by ‘‘in His own image and likeness?” 

From what we know of the original Man, God cre- 
ated him to be His companion and Eternal associate. 

Man is an Eternal Being! 

He is a spirit being, although he lives in a physical 
body. 

Eccl. 3:1 1 — “God set eternity in his heart.” 

If Man then was created to be God’s eternal com- 
panion, and is declared to be made in the image and 
after the likeness of God, we believe that image was 
Spiritual, Intellectual, and Physical. 

God was the Creator of the human. 

It is perfectly natural that the human should look 
like its Creator. 

Again we know that when God’s Son, Jesus, took 
physical form it was the form of the human. 

All the phraseology used in speaking of God, is the 


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same that we use in speaking of the human, so we are 
led to believe that when Man was created in his original 
physical, mental and spiritual image that it was like 
Deity. 

We can not conceive of Deity having any other than 
a human image; if He had any other image or likeness 
we would not feel we were any kin to Him. 

We know that the human has the most perfect organ- 
ism of any being in Creation. 

We know that he was created to be the companion 
of the Creator, he was not to fill the place of a servant 
to a Master or a domestic animal to its owner but was 
to be a son and fellow, a companion and associate of 
the Eternal Father through Eternity. 

It might be interesting before we go into the subject 
more fully to note the kind of being Man was at the 
beginning. 


KIND OF MAN 

Darwin’s hypothesis of evolution has thrown her 
dark cloud of unbelief and fatalism over the age and 
makes Truth hard to be understood, but in the face of 
this we want to prosecute our investigation. 

In our narrow limits it will be impossible for us to 
enter into the discussion of evolution. 

It is sufficient to say, that the latest dictum of Science 
is that there are three distinct kinds of Life and these 
three are separated by impassable chasms; namely. 
Vegetable Life, Animal Life, and Human Life. 

The Vegetable can never cross the chasm to the 


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Animal, and the Animal can never cross over to the 
Human. 

This forever destroys the Darwinian hypothesis. 

We might call attention to the fact that in the wild 
state no animals ever crossed even of the same species, 
the different varieties never mingled. 

Nowhere either in fossil or in forest fastness was 
there ever found a cross between the bear and the deer, 
or the deer and the tiger, or the lion and the hyena, or 
of the crow and the robin, the hawk and the dove, the 
horse and the elephant. 

Genesis 1 : — “And God said, let the earth bring 
forth living creatures after their kind, cattle, and creep- 
ing things, and beast of the earth after their kind: and 
it was so. And God made the beasts of the earth after 
their kind, cattle after their kind, and everything that 
creepeth upon the earth after its kind: and God saw 
that it was good.” 

After a most careful and searching examination of 
fossils in all stages in animal history this statement of 
Genesis remains true, every animal “after its own 
kind.” 

The skeptic can not find one place in all animal his- 
tory where there was ever a cross of species from the 
most minute organism to the largest of mammals, every- 
thing has stayed in its own class by itself. 

You can find the fern embedded in the great beds 
of coal but it is the same fern that you picked today in 
the cool shade of the forest. 

The maple leaf that is found embedded down eleven 


man’s treason 35 

hundred feet underground, underneath the strata of 
coal is the same maple leaf that we know, there is no 
change in it, it has the same number of points the same 
shape as the maple leaf that grows on your lawn. 

The same form of life that we find today in the bed 
of the ocean is found in the rocks, it has never changed. 

No, Nature knows her laws and the wild animal 
lives in perfect obedience to them. 

MAN THE CROWN OF CREATION 

Scriptures declare that when man was created he 
had a mind intellectually of such a character that he 
was able to name the entire animal creation. 

“And out of the ground Jehovah God formed every 
beast of the field, and every bird of the heavens; and 
brought them to the Man to see what he would call 
them: and whatsoever the man called every living 
creature, that was the name thereof.’’ 

And the man gave names to all cattle and all birds 
of the heavens and to all beasts> of the field, and the 
name that was given described the characteristics and 
nature of the animal. 

When we realize that there are more than 500,000 
bugs, birds, worms, animals, fishes and reptiles, and 
that man named them, he could not have been any half- 
developed missing link of the Simian family. No! he 
came full-orbed from the womb of Creation fit to be 
ruler over creation. 

He was not only created with an intellect of such 


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marvelous powers but with spiritual capacities that 
made him the fit companion of Deity. 

man’s dominion 

Again, God gave him dominion over all the works of 
His hands, as described in Gen. 1 and Psalm 8: 
“When I consider thy heavens, the work of Thy fingers, 
the moon and the stars, which Thou hast ordained ; what 
is man, that Thou art mindful of him? And the son 
of man, that thou visitest him? 

“Thou hast made him but little lower than the 
angels.” 

(The Hebrew word translated angels in this verse 
is the same word translated God in Genesis 1 : 1 and 
should have been translated as follows: 

“Thou hast made him but little lower than God, 
and crowned him with glory and honor, and made 
him to have dominion over all the works of Thy hand, 
and put all things under his feet.” 

Notice here that man is made but little lower than 
God. 

As one eminent Hebraist translates: “Thou hast 
made him but a shade lower than God.” 

In other words when man was created he was made 
as near like Deity as it was possible for Deity to create 
him. 

He was made to be God’s companion. 

Next you notice that God gave him dominion over 
all the works of His hands. 


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He ruled not only the animal creation but he ruled 
the laws of Creation. 

He ruled the very stars in their courses. 

He was God’s under-ruler. 

He was not the subject of any being or law but God 
and the Law of Love. 

This in itself is a most remarkable fact, but it per- 
fectly coincides with man’s dreams of dominion. 

Man was never made to be a subject or slave. 

We see glimpses of it down through the ages of hu- 
manity’s history. 

Moses had dominion over the Law of Nature when 
he spoke to the Red Sea and it opened before him, a 
huge gap cut by an unseen hand, with its walls towering 
hundreds of feet on either side; there it stood at the 
voice of a Man, till four million people with their stock 
and herds, their families and slaves, went pouring 
through dry-shod to liberty on the other side ; and then 
by the same voice of that same Man the waters came 
thundering together with a crash that shook the heathen 
nations for generations. 

Again we see Joshua speaking to the Jordan, and 
that turbulent river responded to the voice of its master 
and opened a path for triumphant Israel to reach its 
promised land. 

We hear the same man speaking to the sun and moon 
and they stood still hour after hour while he wrought 
a victory over his enemies. 

We see the intrepid Elijah calling fire out of heaven. 

We see Daniel’s three companions thrown into the 


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fiery furnace and come out without a bum or smell of 
fire on their garments. 

Then we quietly drop down through the ages to the 
Nazarene and see Him exercising the same authority 
given to man at the beginning. 

Jesus, having been born free from the taint of 
Mortality, holds the same Authority and Dominion as 
the first man. 

We see Jesus exercising this Authority over the Sea 
of Galilee, over the maimed legs and arms of suffering 
humanity, over death, over the fishes of the sea, over the 
trees of the field, over Satan. 

Jesus ruled as absolute Master and Monarch of 
Creation. 


man’s nature 

When Man was created, he was planned a perfect 
human being with endless human life. 

He was not immortal neither was he mortal. 

1 he word mortal means death-doomed or Satan- 
ruled. 

Immortality means free from the dominion of mor- 
tality, or incorruptible, deathless. 

When God created Adam he was a perfect human 
being ; death had no dominion over him. 

He had the physical life that had the power of re- 
cuperation to the extent that he never wore out, nor was 
he subject to disease or death. 

I suppose that the Physiological Law, that man’s 


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physical nature renews itself once in seven years, was 
the secret of man’s perennial freshness physically. 

Jesus had the same kind of a physical body. 

He was not subject to death. 

Death had no authority over Him till He became 
our sin-substitute and our sin-nature was laid upon 
Him, then He became Mortal and subject to Death. 

Man belongs to God’s class. 

He is an eternal personality. 

Before he committed sin he had Dominion over all 
angels and demons. 

No being but God Almighty Himself was greater. 

It might be well for us to notice at this point another 
remarkable feature in God’s plan. 

TIME LIMIT 

God gave to man a Time-Limit Dominion; by ac- 
commodation we might call it a Lease of Dominion. 

This Lease of Dominion is called in Daniel and in 
Mark, “the age of the Gentiles,” that is the age of the 
nations, or the age of the Dominion of Man. 

“And behold, they cried out, saying, What have 
we to do with thee, thou Son of God? art thou come 
hither to torment us before the time?” Matt. 8:29. 

“And Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gen- 
tiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.” 
Luke 2 1:24. 

The word “Gentiles” means the Human Race, fal- 
len man. 

“For I would not, brethren, have you ignorant, of 


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this mystery, lest ye be wise in your own conceits, that 
a hardening in part hath befallen Israel, until the fulness 
of the Gentiles be come in.” Romans 1 1 :25. 

‘‘Therefore rejoice, O heavens, and ye that dwell in 
them. Woe for the earth and for the sea: because the 
devil is gone down unto you, having great wrath, know- 
ing that he hath but a short time.” Rev. 12:12. 

In these Scriptures we see that the demons knew they 
had a Time-limit. 

That Time-limit is called the Time of the Gentiles. 

This evidently means the Age of Man’s original Do- 
minion which was turned over to Satan. 

We know that Satan is ruling to-day through fallen 
man, but thank God that Lease is nearly ended and will 
expire at the Coming of the Lord Jesus. 

man’s responsibility 

God gave to man the ability to reproduce himself, 
or to beget children. 

These children were primarily for the joy and glory 
of God. 

It happened in this wise. 

God, instead of creating the whole human race by a 
single word, created one man and one woman, and said 
to them, ‘‘I permit you to give birth to my children, to 
rear, educate and care for them, teaching them to love 
me and respond to my heart yearnings.” 

So man’s real business was to give birth to God’s 
children. 


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This gives a responsibility to man that can only be 
measured by Eternity. 

Man gives birth to eternal personalities, children that 
will live as long as God lives. 

Man is then the Custodian of God’s Joy. 

NATURE OF MAN’S SIN 

This is the old problem that has confronted Theolo- 
gians every generation since Calvary. 

What was the nature of man’s original transgres- 
sion? 

It could not be a broken law for there had been no 
law given as we understand the term, from its connec- 
tion with the Law of Moses. 

Then what kind of a sin was it that could compel the 
Incarnation and the sufferings of Calvary? 

What was the sin that may be called man’s master- 
stroke of misery ? 

Having found that man was invested with such far- 
reaching authority, and had an intellect of such calibre 
as to be the companion of Deity, and had in his hands 
the joy or the sorrow of God, we can understand now 
the nature of the sin he committed. 

HIGH TREASON 

The sin of Adam was the crime of High Treason. 

God had conferred upon him the legal authority to 
rule over the Universe. 

This Universe-wide Dominion was the most sacred 
heritage that God could give to Man. 


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Adam turned this Legal Dominion over into the 
hands of God’s enemy, the Devil. 

This sin is unpardonable, High Treason has been so 
considered in all ages of the Human. 

Adam’s transgression was committed in the white 
light of absolute knowledge. 

He was not deceived by the Devil. 

He understood the steps that led to this awful crime. 

His wife, Eve, was deceived but Adam became the 
Benedict Arnold of Eternity. “For Adam was first 
formed, then Eve ; and Adam was not beguiled, but the 
woman being beguiled hath fallen into transgression.’’ 
1 Timothy 2:13-14. 

He knew God, he knew Satan, he knew the result of 
the unthinkable crime he committed. 

THE EFFECT OF THE TREASON 

First, it was the thwarting of God’s plan. 

Second, the separation of God and Man. 

Third, it gave Satan universal Dominion over God’s 
creation. 

Fourth, a perfect bondage of the Human to the 
Devil. 

Fifth, a blighting Curse upon the Animal and the 
Vegetable Kingdom. 

There had been no death since the face of the earth 
had been renewed and prepared for man’s advent, but 
now a blighting curse sweeps over God’s fair Creation. 

Every flower and fruit has a curse upon it. 

Worms, briars, and thorns abound. 


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In Genesis 3:17, the story is told of the earth cursed 
on account of man’s sin. 

So bitterly was it cursed that its fruit was unfit to lay 
upon God’s altar as we see in Cain’s offering. 

This hideous withering curse changed the face of all 
the earth. 

Death and blight are now visible everywhere. 

The effect on the animal kingdom is more striking. 

Creation was planned under the dominion of love; 
the whole animal creation lived in the atmosphere of 
love and peace. 

Fear and hatred were unknown. 

But suddenly the whole animal creation received a 
new nature. 

There is breathed into them as by a breath of wind a 
spirit of hatred, of cunning, of fear, of revenge. 

The lamb and lion had gamboled and played to- 
gether upon the green eating grass ; suddenly the lion is 
changed; he becomes ferocious, his voice that had 
known no sounds but love was changed until the very 
woods and plains resounded with his awful war-call. 

Fear grips the heart of the timid. 

Man’s awful crime is being felt by the whole animal 
creation. 

The earth is suddenly turned into a great battle-field 
and down through the ages the silent woods, streams 
and deserts have become a huge cemetery. 

Fear and death stalk in the shadows of every night. 


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man’s KINGDOM 

Man suddenly becomes mortal. 

Man becomes death-doomed, Satan’s servant. 

He is born again. 

A new Nature enters into him. 

It is not the nature of God, but of this enemy, the 
Devil, the same as that breathed into the Animal King- 
dom, devilish, cruel, malignant. 

His spirit undergoes a change, he has become a par- 
taker of the Satanic nature, spiritual death, and Adam 
dies spiritually. 

He suddenly becomes a hater of God; his whole 
nature is rebellion against God. 

He loses fellowship and legal standing with God. 

He loses his love and gets hatred and revenge; he 
loses his faith and gets hesitating, halting, stumbling 
unbelief. 

He loses his rest, peace and joy. 

He is driven from the garden 
With no approach to God, 

Save rvith bleeding sacrifices 
Whose blood drips on the sod. 

When God created man He gave, him the choice of 
eating the fruit of the Tree of Life and of the Tree of 
Knowledge of good and evil. 

One would have united him with God, the other 
with the Devil. 

One would have given him Eternal Life and Immor- 


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45 


tality for his body, the other, spiritual death and mor- 
tality for his body. 

Adam had the privilege of becoming God’s child; 
he forfeits it and becomes the Devil’s. 

adam’s legal right to sell 

Did Adam have a legal right to barter his domin- 
ion? 

Yes, though we question if he had the moral right. 

This answers that old question of why God has not 
disposed of the Devil if He has the power to do it ; why 
He has permitted Satan to rule the earth and cause so 
much misery, if He is God Almighty. 

Adam evidently had a legal right to transfer this do- 
minion and authority over into the hands of the enemy 
and God has been obliged down through the long 
period of human history to recognize Satan’s legal 
standing and legal right and authority, and on this 
ground and this only can we understand the legal side 
of the Plan of Redemption. 

satan’s dominion 

We have come to one of the most interesting features 
of the Plan of Redemption, Satan’s Dominion over 
Creation. 

We have shown how Satan obtained this authority, 
let us now note some facts in regard to it. 

The careful student of the Scriptures will notice the 
perfect Justice of God. 

He is Almighty but He never took advantage of 
Satan. 


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Adam had legally transferred to him the Authority 
with which God had invested him. 

This Authority was Time-limited. 

Had God not been absolutely just He would have 
dispossessed Satan and punished Man then, but instead 
of that His Grace makes provision for Humanity’s Re- 
demption showing His Love to Man, based upon per- 
fect Justice. 

When Jesus began His ministry, it will be remem- 
bered that directly after He was baptized He was led 
away by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of 
the Devil. 

The Devil said to Him, “If Thou be the Son of 
God, command this stone to become bread;’’ Jesus said 
unto him, “It is written that man shall not live by bread 
alone.’’ 

Then the Devil led Him up and showed Him all the 
kingdoms of the inhabited earth, in a moment of time. 

This he might have done by simply pointing to the 
Roman Eagle, the badge of Rome’s world power. 

And the Devil said to Him, “To Thee will I give 
all this authority, and the glory of them; for it hath been 
delivered unto me, and to whomsoever I will, I give it. 
If Thou therefore wilt worship before me, it shall all be 
Thine.’’ 

Now mark, Satan comes to Jesus and declares to 
Him that the authority and glory of the inhabited earth 
has been delivered unto him and that he can give it to 
whomsoever he wills. 

If the Devil lied to Jesus and Jesus did not know that 


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he lied, then Jesus was but a man, and not the Incarnate 
Son of God, as we have believed ; or, if the Devil lied 
to Jesus and Jesus knew he lied, then it was not a gen- 
uine temptation. 

But if the Devil told Jesus the truth, and Jesus knew 
that it was the truth, then it was a genuine temptation. 

We believe that the Bible is true and that it was a 
bona fide temptation. 

If that be true, then Jesus recognized that Satan 
had authority and dominion over the kingdoms of the 
human race, and authority which he could transfer at 
will to whomsoever he wished. 

This is a hideous fact to contemplate, that the human 
race has been under the Dominion of the Devil, that his 
Dominion is a legal Dominion, and that God is unable 
to break it until such a time as the Adamic lease so- 
called, expires. 

Jesus, moreover, not only recognizes Satan’s author- 
ity at the opening of His ministry but speaks of him in 
John 13:31 as the “prince of this world.” 

A literal rendering would read like this: “Now is 
the crisis of this world, now shall the prince of this 
world be cast out.” 

Satan here is recognized as the political head of the 
human race and of the kingdoms of the world. 

It does not seem necessary to attempt to defend this 
point. 

It is universally conceded that politics are of the pit 
and that the kingdoms of this world are to-day led and 


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controlled by the master politician of the ages, the 
Devil. 

In 2 Cor. 4:3-4, “And even if our gospel is veiled, 
it is veiled in them that perish: in whom the god of this 
world hath blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that 
the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the 
image of God, should not dawn upon them.” 

Satan is called the God of this world. 

Here he takes his position as bidding for the worship 
of man in competition with Jehovah. 

Jesus plainly declares that men are either worship- 
ing Him or the Devil. 

Paul gives us to understand that the entire world is 
either worshiping God through Jesus Christ or worship- 
ing Satan. 

When we realize the power of Satanic worship in 
this country, our mind is staggered. 


DEMON WORSHIP 

When we think of the mothers who are offering up 
their children to-day on the altars to Satan, on the altar 
of the Dance Hall, on the altar of the house of 111 
Fame, on the altar of the God of Gold, men who are 
making burnt offerings to the God of Nicotine daily, 
it makes us shudder. 

It is not in India, Africa, and China alone, that Sa- 
tan is being worshiped but the unhappy fact is that 
every land that does not worship God through Jesus 
Christ is a devotee of the Devil. 


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In John 8:44 Jesus brings another phas* of this truth 
before our minds with awful vividness. 

He is contrasting two fathers, His Father and the 
Jew’s spiritual father. 

They have lost their temper with Jesus and have 
said some very unkind things, when Jesus said to them, 
“Ye are of your father the Devil, and the lust of your 
father ye will to do. He was a murderer from the be- 
ginning and standeth not in the truth, because there is 
no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh 
of his own: for he is a liar, and the father thereof.” 

Here we face one of the most solemn facts of the hu- 
man experience, not only a fact but an explanation for 
the phenomena of sin. 

Man is spiritually in union with the Devil. 

He has become a partaker of the Satanic nature, for 
Paul tells us that “we are by nature children of wrath.” 

John tells us “in this are manifest the children of 
God and the children of the Devil.” 

Man down at the dawn of the human history became 
a partaker of Satanic nature, and that nature was 
poured into his spirit by the Devil, and man became a 
subject of Satan. 

This is the only explanation of the power of the 
Devil in the world. 

Satan is declared to be a murderer and a liar: the 
two outstanding characteristics of the human race are 
lying and murder. 

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fact remains that deception, and murder, are the chief 
characteristics of the human race. 

Jesus describes a murderer as a man that hates. 

Hatred and revenge are deified in all great novels 
and dramas. 

Satan is not only the Prince of this world, the God, 
and spiritual Father, but Paul tells us in Hebrews 2:14 
that he has the power or authority of death. 

Paul also tells us in Acts 26:18 that his commision 
was to go and deliver men out of “the authority of 
Satan.’* 

John tells us that the whole world lieth in the em- 
brace of the evil one. 

These facts are unpleasant; no one would care to 
write them, no one but would shrink from telling his 
dearest friend of them unless duty compelled it. 

man’s condition 

Let us in a word sum up man’s condition. 

First he has become mortal, a subject of the Devil. 

He is giving birth to children not for God, but for 
the glory and joy of the Devil. 

Second, he has became an heir to misery, pain, sick- 
ness and death. 

He is suffering under an unpardonable sin that shuts 
him out of fellowship and companionship with God. 

He is a partaker of a nature that makes him an ene- 
my of God, and since his trason he has had no ap- 
proach to God except over a bleeding sacrifice, by a 


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God-appointed priesthood or by dreams or visions, or 
angelic visitations. 

His mind has become blinded by the Devil; his 
nature is enmity to God, not subject to the law of God. 

His eyes have been blinded to the will of God and 
Paul sums* up his case: without covenant claims on 
God; without God, Godless; without Hope, hopeless; 
and in the world with the power of death in Satan’s 
hands, with no legal approach to God and no legal 
rights in prayer, a criminal outlawed by his own 
T reason. 


CHAPTER 

THE 

THIRD 


THE DOMINION OF DEATH 

The Bible is a mystery book until we find the key 
that opens it, then it ceases to be a mystery and becomes 
a message. 

There are two words that open the Bible. 

The two words hang on the same key-ring. 

They are the words Life and Death. 

It is impossible to get a coherent conception of God’s 
message without a full understanding of these two 
mighty words. 

Sin, as we understand it to-day is not the reason for 
Redemption, it is but one of the results of a basic 
cause, and until we understand that basic cause, there 
will be no intelligent grasp either of Man’s condition, 
or of God’s provision for his Redemption. 

Death has ever been a mystery in all ages. 

Science stands mute in its presence, unable even to 
attempt an explanation. 

Philosophy turns poet when it meets this dread ene- 
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Theology has only dealt in generalities when at- 
tempting to explain it. 

That blood-hound like foe began its dread work at 
the cradle of the human and has followed it down 
through the stream of the centuries. 

It is not a part of the Creation, nor a part of God’s 
original plan. 

It has ever been the enemy of the human. 

MAN IS A SPIRIT 

Before we can understand the Nature of Death it 
will be necessary to look at the Nature of Man for a 
moment. 

Man is a spirit and posesses a soul and also a body. 

His soul and spirit constitutes his personality. 

His soul is made up of intellect, sensibilities, and 
will. 

Above this soul, is he, himself, spirit. 

This is the real Man. 

This spirit operates through the soul or intellect, 
sensibilities, and will, and these in turn operate through 
the physical or the body. 

The Man and his Soul live in a body. 

At death the Man and his Soul leave the body and 
go to their home. 

It has always been difficult to realize that Man is a 
spirit, instead of a physical being. 

Paul speaking to the Thessalonians says, “And the 
God of peace himself sanctify you wholly; and may 
your spirit, and soul, and body, be preserved entire. 


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without blame at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.** 

The real world powers to-day are spiritual. 

God is a spirit. 

Man is a spirit. 

Satan is a spirit. 

KINDS OF DEATH 

There are several kinds of Death mentioned in the 
Scriptures, but we are interested only in three. Spiritual, 
Physical, and Eternal, which is called “The Second 
Death.” 

The real Death is that which lays hold of our 
spirits, rather than our bodies. 

Physical Death is but a manifestation of its parent. 

“The Second Death” is the ultimate finality of 
Death, the Home of the Spiritually Dead. 

The reader will find it very difficult to think of 
Death except in relation to the Physical. 

All our teaching in regard to Death has been con- 
nected with the Physical. 

Physical Death is the dissolution of the physical 
body. 

In Job 1 8: it is called “the first born of Death.” 

In other words primal Death, is not Physical but 
Spiritual. 

Spiritual Death came to the earth first. 

It manifests itself in the Physical by destroying it. 

The Physical Death is but a manifestation of a law 
that is at work within the human, called by Paul “The 
Law of Sin and of Death.” 


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KINDS OF LIFE 

But before we take up the question as to the nature 
of Spiritual Death it might be well to look at Life. 

There are four different kinds of Life, Vegetable 
Life, Animal Life, Human Life, and Spiritual Life or 
Eternal Life. 

Jesus tells us in John 5 :26 that all Life heads up in 
God. 

He is the Author of all Life whether animal, vegeta- 
ble, human or Eternal and he has given to the different 
kingdoms life to fit their spheres. 

In other words Life is the Nature of God. 

Life, is the substance, the being of God. 

God is a Spirit, consequently His Life is Spirit Life. 

Satan is a spirit, but his nature is the very opposite 
of God’s 

God’s Nature is Life, and its first manifestation is 
Love. 

satan’s nature 

Satan’s Nature is Death and its first manifestation 
is Hatred. 

Spiritual Death, then, is as much of a substance, a 
force, a fact, as Life, but the difference is it emanates 
from the Devil, while Life emanates from God. 

Satan was originally in heaven with God, one of 
those spirits who stood next to the very Throne itself 
but he turned against God and when he did his Na- 
ture changed. 

It is that Nature which serves as the very fountain 
of all that is evil, wicked and corrupt in the human. 


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We can see if all that is good, holy and beautiful 
heads up in Life — which emanates from God, then 
all that is evil and bad and corrupt heads up in spiritual 
Death, which emanates from Satan. 

Death, then, is a Nature as really as life is a Nature. 

We can understand that out of God’s Nature flows 
love, joy and peace; and out of Satan’s Nature comes 
hatred, murder, lust, every unclean and evil force in 
the world. 

There is no solution of the human problem without 
understanding these two supernatural forces. Spirit Life 
and Spirit Death. 

If Man is dead in spirit, that is if he is a partaker of 
the Nature of the Devil, then we understand his need of 
Eternal Life. 

When God placed Man in Eden he had the inherent 
power of choice, and responsibility. 

If he had not been created thus, he would have been 
an automaton, a machine under the direction of his 
Creator. 

If this had been so, Man could not have brought any 
special joy to God, more than a machine can bring joy 
to its inventor. 

God gave Man not only the power of volition but 
also knowledge and wisdom, beyond anything we have 
to-day. 

He had been brought into being to be the associate 
and companion of the great Creator God. 

That in itself indicates Man’s mental and spiritual 
capacity. 


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When he was put in control of the Universe God 
warned him, told him that if he disobeyed he should 
surely die, or literally “in dying thou shalt die.” 

This statement suggests the fact that Man is subject 
to a two-fold Death. 

The moment Adam committed High Treason he 
died in spirit, but he did not die physically for nine 
hundred and thirty years. 

It is very noticeable that the moment Man sinned, 
his Nature underwent a complete change. 

This has no parallel in Nature, none anywhere, ex- 
cept what is known as the New Birth, for when one is 
born of God, he undergoes as instantaneous a change. 

This proves to us that Man was actually born 
Again when he sinned, that is, he was born of the 
Devil; he became partaker of Satanic Nature, just as 
to-day when a man accepts Jesus Christ, he is born 
of God, and becomes a partaker of the Divine Nature. 

THE NEW TESTAMENT VIEW 
OF SPIRITUAL DEATH 

Romans 5:12 “Therefore, as through one man sin 
entered into the world, and death through sin; and so 
death passed into all men for that all sinned.” 

Through one man’s sin, Death entered into the 
world. 

The picture is of Death standing outside a closed 
door, man’s sin is throwing the door open and allowing 
Death to come in and enter the human. 


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» 

This is not Physical Death as we see in the verses 
following for they say that “Death reigned from Adam 
until Moses,” indicating at the time of Moses there was 
a cessation, in part at least, of the Dominion of Death. 

We know that nothing in Moses’ day stopped men 
dying physically, it has no reference to that, but it does 
have reference to another kind of Death, which the 
remainder of the chapter proves, for in this section 
of Romans Paul is contrasting Spiritual Death and 
Spiritual Life. 

That word “reign” really means “reigned as king” 
so we understand that Death reigned as king over the 
human race from Adam’s day until Moses’. 

In Moses’ day God gave to him the Atonement of 
the blood of animals. 

Blood represents Life, and Atonement means a cov- 
ering, so God through the High Priesthood gave to the 
Jewish Nation and to the Gentile world, if they wished 
it, a Covering of Life, so we understand how Death’s 
Dominion as a world Emperor was broken. 

Perhaps the most graphic statement in regard to 
Spiritual Death is in the 1 7th verse. 

A literal translation reads, “for if by the trespass 
of one, Death seized the Sovereignty through the one.” 

Here is an awful picture, away back there in the 
Garden of Eden, Death, that hideous monster, seized 
the Sovereignty, the Dominion, the Kingship over Cre- 
ation, driving Life out and bringing in its own rule of 
desolation: and then again in the 21st verse the same 
translator translates “that as sin reigned as king in the 


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realm of death, even so might grace reign as king 
through righteousness unto Eternal Life, through 
Jesus Christ our Lord.’* 

Here we have the truth stated clearly. Death has 
seized the Sovereignty and God’s Creation is under its 
Dominion. 

We understand that sin so prevalent today, scourg- 
ing and blighting the human race, reigns as king in this 
awful realm of Spiritual Death, where the whole hu- 
man race lives to-day under the cruel Emperor Satan. 

This is the only explanation, for the present power 
of sin in the world. 

We could not explain sin otherwise. 

Sin is the outgrowth of Spiritual Death. 

Spiritual Death is the soil out of which all kinds of 
sin grow, just as Spiritual Life, the Nature of God com- 
ing into Man becomes the soil out of which all kinds of 
good actions spring. 

THE NATURE OF SPIRITUAL DEATH 

It can be clearly seen now that Spiritual Death is the 
Nature of the Devil and Spiritual Life is the Nature 
of God, that out of Spiritual Death comes hatred, jeal- 
ousy and murder and out of the Nature of God comes 
love, forgiveness, and peace. 

We can understand now the prevalence and power 
of sin in the world. 

We may legislate all we please, until we change the 
Nature of Man, sin will grow and flourish; we may 
stop it here, or there, but it will surely spring up 
elsewhere. 


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The only hope of the human is a change of its Na- 
ture. 

Spiritual Death then is the Nature that lies back 
behind all sin committed. 

Man commits sin because his Nature produces that 
kind of conduct. 

Spiritual Death made Man mortal. 

Spiritual Life alone can make him immortal. 

That was a sad day for the human when Satan be- 
came Emperor of the Universe and let loose that 
hideous miasma of Hell, Spiritual Death. 

POWER OF DEATH 

What an awakening for Adam. 

He had been God’s under-ruler and king. 

Perfect beauty had gladdened his eyes at the rising 
of every sun, but now devastation has begun, the marks 
of Satanic Dominion are manifested everywhere. 

Spiritual Death has changed the Nature of all the 
Animal Kingdom, and the discordant cries of hatred 
and malice are heard from wooded dell to open glade ; 
carcasses of insects and beasts lie rotting in the sun; 
and Adam, the uncrowned king of Creation, grovels 
under the iron heel of Satan. 

Spiritual Death became a hideous reality to him, 
his first born son murders the second ; he is made to feel 
with keenness the effect of his treason ; he had not only 
sinned against God, but against his unborn children. 

A little grandchild is born into the family, and 
Adam names it Enosh, which means “mortal,’* “frail,** 
“subject of Death,’’ or “Satan ruled.* 


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Think of naming the first grandchild of the human 
race after his sin! 

Man is now united with the Devil. 

He is an outcast, an outlaw driven from the Garden 
with no legal ground of approach to God. 

He no longer responds to the call of God, he re- 
sponds only to his new master. 

Now we understand why Man is more than a trans- 
gressor, more than a law-breaker, Man is spiritually a 
child of the Devil 

Man partakes of his father’s nature. 

This explains why Man cannot be saved by conduct. 

If he is ever saved it must be by some one paying the 
penalty of his treason, and giving him a new nature, he 
can never stand in the presence of God as he is. 

Man is lost to-day not because of what he does, but 
because of what he is. 

Man needs a New Birth, that is, Life from God, be- 
cause he is spiritually dead. 

SPIRITUAL DEATH IS UNIVERSAL 

“And He (Christ) shall destroy in this mountain the 
face of the covering that covers all people and the veil 
that is spread over all the nations; He shall destroy 
death forever and the Lord Jehovah shall wipe off tears 
from all faces and the reproach of His people shall He 
take away from off the earth for Jehovah hath spoken 
it.’’ Isaiah 25:8-9 

This covering that covers all peoples, this veil, is 
the veil of spiritual death. 


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Now mark, it says here that it is a covering over all 
people, a veil that is spread over all nations. 

Romans 5:12 declares “death passed unto all men, 
for all sinned.” 

Matt. 4:16 says, “the nations that sit in darkness 
shall see a light and they that sat in the shadow of 
death to them did light spring up.” 

Romans 3:9,23 declare “that all are under sin,” 
and “all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of 
God.” 

From these Scriptures it is clear that the human race 
are universally under the dominion of Satan, that they 
have all become partakers of his Nature. 

They have no legal right to approach God and Sa- 
tan is now their God and ruler. 

Jesus speaking of this in John 5:24-25 says, “He 
that heareth my word, and believeth Him that sent me, 
hath eternal life, and cometh not into judgment, but 
hath passed out of death into life.” 

“Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour cometh, 
and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the 
Son of God; and they that hear shall live.” 

Jesus is speaking of the spiritually dead who by hear- 
ing His voice may come out of the Realm of Death 
into the Realm of Life; out of the family of Death into 
the family of Life. 

In the story of the Prodigal Son, Jesus makes the 
father say, “This is my son that was dead and is now 
alive, was lost and is found.” 

In 1 John 3:14-15 it says, “We know that we have 


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passed out of death into life, because we love the breth- 
ren. He that loveth not abideth in death. Whosoever 
hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no 
murderer hath eternal life abiding in him.” 

Here we have the contrast of Death and Life, that 
is, the Nature of the Devil and the Nature of God man- 
ifesting themselves, one in hatred and the other in love. 

‘‘And you did he make alive, when ye were dead 
through your trespasses and sins, 

‘‘Wherein ye once walked according to the course of 
this world, according to the prince of the powers of the 
air, of the spirit that now worketh in the sons of 
disobedience : 

‘‘Among whom we also all once lived in the lusts of 
our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, 
and were by nature the children of wrath, even as the 
rest: but God, being rich in mercy, for his great love 
wherewith he loved us, 

‘‘Even when we were dead through our trespasses, 
made us alive together with Christ (by grace have ye 
been saved) .” Ephesians 2:1-3. 

Let us look critically at this section of Scripture: 
first, we were made alive when we were dead. 

Second, we walked according to the prince of the 
powers of the air. 

Third, this prince is now working in the sons of dis- 
obedience, just as the Holy Spirit works in the sons of 
obedience. 

Fourth, we all once lived in the lusts of our flesh 
and were by nature children of wrath. 


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Fifth, but God being rich in mercy, for his great love 
wherewith he loved us when we were dead in our tres- 
passes made us alive together with Christ. 

Take this statement with Col. 2:13, “You being 
dead through your trespasses and the uncircumcision of 
your flesh, you, I say, did He make alive together with 
Him, having forgiven us all our trespasses.” 

From these Scriptures the case is made: Man is 
spiritually dead, under the dominion of the prince of the 
powers of the air and this spirit is now working in and 
through man’s life carrying out the plans and purposes 
of this prince. 

All this substantiates our foregoing argument: the 
universal man must be Born Again and the New Birth 
is receiving the Life or Nature of God. John tells us 
that when we receive this Nature we love our brethren 
and he that does not receive this Nature has hatred for 
his brethren. 

THE CONTRAST 

Here again Death and Life are contrasted. 

In Romans 8:1-13 Paul contrasts the Flesh and the 
Spirit, Life and Death. 

In verse two, “For the law of the spirit of life in 
Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and 
of death.” 

The law of sin and of death is that law that is at 
work to-day in the realm of Spiritual Death mentioned 
in the 3 th Chapter and since Paul has been born again 
he is free from the dominion of his former ruler. 


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The term Flesh as he uses it indicates Man’s Condi- 
tion before he is made alive, or Born Again. 

The Greek word “sarx” in this connection has ref- 
erence to Man when he is spiritually dead. 

The 6th verse, “For the mind of the flesh is death; 
but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace.” 

The mind of the flesh is the mind of the natural Man 
in the realm of spiritual death and this mind he says in 
the 7th verse is “enmity against God, it is not subject 
to the Law of God neither indeed can it be.” 

The Man who lives in the realm of Spiritual Death 
is enmity against God. 

He may be a college professor, he may hold the 
highest place in the educational world, but if he has 
never been born from above he is God’s enemy by na- 
ture and he cannot be a subject of God’s Law, but Paul 
says of the believer, “Ye are not in the flesh but in the 
Spirit, if so be that the Spirit dwelleth in you.” 

In other words if you have been Born Again, passed 
out of the realm of Death and Satanic Dominion into 
the realm of Life and the Spirit’s Dominion, “ye are no 
longer in the flesh.” 

You remember Paul’s pathetic cry in the closing of 
the 7th chapter of this book, “Wretched man that I 
am! who shall deliver me out of the body of this 
death?” then he cries, “but I thank God through Jesus 
Christ” I have found my deliverance. 

Paul was speaking of the time when he was spirit- 
ually dead, a child of the Devil but awakened by the 


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Spirit to his bondage and also to the privilege of 
deliverance. 


SUMMING UP THE CASE 

Let us now in conclusion see what we have found. 

First, Spiritual Death is the Nature of the Devil. 

Second, Man by his sin has become a partaker of 
Satanic Nature. 

Third, this union with Satan has separated Man 
from God. 

Fourth, Man is now an outlaw without legal ground 
of appeal or approach to God. 

Fifth, if Man ever stands right with God some one 
must pay the penalty of his transgression and give him 
a new Nature. 

Sixth, neither Education nor Culture can ever change 
his Nature, the New Birth is Man’s only hope. 


CHAPTER 

THE 

FOURTH 

SATAN 

There is no explanation for the intelligence and or- 
ganization that is back of the power of sin if there is no 
such being as Satan. 

The prevalence and power and malignity of sin com- 
pels us to look for a cause. 

To say that sin is inherent in man is to accuse God 
of creating a being in whose nature sin forms a part. 

We cannot accept this. 

If it could be proved that there was no such being as 
Satan then the difficulty of locating the seat, the foun- 
tain of sin would be encountered. 

The Scripture is explicit, it tells us as much about 
Satan as about God, it tells who he was and who he is 
to-day, how he became what he is and tells us how he 
gained dominion over the human race. 

It tells us of his malignant nature and character, tells 
us also of his end. 

Practically all the great thinkers accept the dual 
theory to-day. 

All that is holy, righteous and good heads up in one, 


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and all that is evil, unjust and destructive, heads up in 
the other. 

SATAN’S LEGAL DOMINION 

One of the bitterest facts that humanity and Heav- 
en have to face is that Satan has a legal right to rule 
over the human race. 

God gave to Adam dominion and authority. 

This dominion was over Satan and over all the works 
of God’s hands. 

Man ruled not only Satan, but he ruled all the an- 
gelic beings; he was next in authority to God, and 
when he turned that vast Kingdom over into the hands 
of Satan, it was a legal transference and it was so legal 
that God was obliged to recognize its legality, and the 
only way that God could meet the issue was to send 
His Beloved Son down out of Heaven to suffer the pen- 
alty of Adam’s transgression. 

If you will notice, all through the Scriptures God 
and the angels treat Satan with a certain deference; 
they recognize his legal dominion. 

If Satan did not have legal dominion, why is it that 
God who is Almighty, did not put him out of business 
and drive him off the earth into his eternal prison-house? 

But God could not do it! Consequently there has 
come into being that marvelous legal document, The 
Plan of Redemption. 

You remember when Jesus met Satan in the Wilder- 
ness in the great temptations that Satan said, “To Thee 
will I give all this authority and the glory of them, for 


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it has been delivered unto me, and to whomsoever I 
will, I give it; if Thou therefore wilt worship before 
me, it shall all be Thine.” 

Jesus does not dispute Satan’s claim; He takes it for 
granted that Satan is telling the truth. 

Satan’s bold boast and offer to Jesus is one of the 
striking facts of history. 

Satan, then, has legal rights that God must and does 
recognize. 

Adam had a legal right though not a moral right to 
transfer the dominion that God had placed in his hands, 
into the hands of the Devil, the enemy of God. 

There can be no plan of redemption nor theological > 
system that does not recognize Satanic dominion, and 
there can be no excuse for God, if this dominion is not 
a legal dominion; for, if God has a legal right to dis- 
possess the Devil and put him out of dominion and yet 
He does not do it, then God necessarily becomes guilty 
of all the acts of the Devil. 

But if man, with his free moral agency and the legal 
rights that have been conferred upon him by God, turns 
that dominion into the hands of his enemy, God has 
no right to dispossess the Devil until man’s lease of do- 
minon has expired. 


WHO HE IS 

This is a study of the Being who is to-day ruling the 
earth; who sits as the Prince of the Nations; who has 
the Authority to rule the hearts and lives of men ; who 
is the author of all our miseries and sorrows ; the Being 


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who has power of disease and death, and Authority to 
cast into Hell. 

He is the King of the angels of the Abyss, he rules 
the dark hosts of Hell. 

His chief desire and design is to destroy the human 
race and thereby bring sorrow to the heart of the Father 
God. 

In Luke 10:18 Jesus says, “I saw Satan as lightning 
cast out of Heaven.” 

In Isaiah 14:12-15 he is called the ‘‘Day Star, Son 
of the Morning,” and his Fall is attributed to his desire 
to rule the Heavens and cast God out. 

He said, ‘‘I will ascend into Heaven, I will exalt my 
throne above the stars of God; and I will sit upon the 
mount of congregation in the uttermost parts of the 
north ; I will ascend above the heights of the clouds ; I 
will make myself like the Most High.” 

This with Ezekiel 28: 1 1-19 gives us a hint of who 
Satan was. 

The 28th chapter of Ezekiel is addressed first to the 
Prince of Tyre, 1-11, and 1 1 -1 9, to the King of Tyre. 

The first ten verses have to do with the reigning 
Prince over Tyre who is serving under his great Emper- 
or Satan. 

Satan is described as having the dominion over the 
earth, over the Kings of the earth — this is a picture of 
Satan ruling a nation through its King. 

Beginning with the 1 2th verse we see him in his true 
light: “Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Thou sealest up 
the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty.” 


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This description can not apply to any man living at 
the time of Ezekiel, for it says, “Thou wast in Eden, 
the garden of God.” 

We know that Satan was there. 

“And every precious stone was thy covering/’ as the 
precious stones in the crown of a King are his covering, 
the insignia of his office, of his authority. 

And so God says that “The sardius, the topaz, the 
diamond, the beryl, the onyx, the jasper, the sapphire, 
the emerald, and carbuncle and gold’’ are in that won- 
derful covering or crown. 

And then He says, “The workmanship of thy tabrets 
and of thy pipes was in thee ; in the day that thou wast 
created they were prepared. 

“Thou wast the anointed cherub that covereth: and 
I set thee, so that thou wast upon the holy mountain of 
God ; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the 
stones of fire. 

“Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that 
thou wast created, until unrighteousness was found in 
thee.’’ 

The being whom God is describing here — and it is 
God who is speaking — is a being perfect in beauty, 
summing up perfection and wisdom, and was the 
anointed cherub. 

The word “anointed” suggests that he was connect- 
ed with the throne, and the reference to musical instru- 
ments that he evidently led the worship of Heaven ; he 
led the great angel choirs in their worship of God. 

He was able to walk up and down in the very pres- 


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ence of the Eternal God, and he was perfect in all his 
ways until unrighteousness was discovered in him. 

“Therefore have I cast thee as profane out of the 
mountain of God ; and I have destroyed thee, O cover- 
ing cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire. 

“Thy heart was lifted up because of thy beauty; 
thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy bright- 
ness.” 

This could only apply to a heavenly being who held 
a place of authority and glory and honor before God 
Almighty, and whom God cast out from His presence. 

When Satan was cast out of Heaven, he evidently 
lost none of his ability or brilliancy, and none of his 
wisdom ; it simply became corrupted. 

PASSION MUSIC 

It is a significant fact that music to-day holds a large 
place in all the brothels, dance-houses, theaters and 
operas, that music is one of the attractive features of 
sin to-day. 

Satan has not ceased to be a musician, neither has he 
ceased to lead great choruses and oratorios. 

In Revelation 9:11 he is called the King, the angel 
of the Abyss. 

His Hebrew name is Abaddon, and his Greek name 
is Apollyon. 

He is the great King of the demon hosts of Hell. 

He is the mighty Enemy of God to-day; he is an 
enemy of angels and of men. 


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73 


He heads up all the evil of all the ages. 

According to the Scriptures he has the power of dis- 
ease, the power of death, the power to bring plagues 
upon humanity, the power to cause storms and unnat- 
ural fires. 

His whole nature is malignant and cruel. 

He evidently loves the esthetic and beautiful, his fall 
did not take that from him. 

Whenever he has an opportunity he uses these to 
destroy and wreck the spirits of men. 

THE PRINCE OF POLITICIANS 

Luke 4:3-7, “And the Devil said unto Him, If thou 
art the Son of God, command this stone that it become 
bread. 

“And Jesus answered unto him. It is written, Man 
shall not live by bread alone. 

“And he led Him up, and showed Him all the king- 
doms of the world in a moment of time. 

“And the Devil said unto Him, To thee I will give 
all this authority, and the glory of them: for it hath 
been delivered unto me; and to whomsoever I will I 
give it. 

“If Thou therefore wilt worship before me, it shall 
all be thine.” 

Here Jesus recognizes that Satan has the political do- 
minion over the kingdoms of the earth and that the 
whole human race are his subjects. 

In a previous chapter we called attention to how Sa- 
tan obtained this dominion. 


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Here Jesus recognizes his right to rule. 

As the Prince he is the political head of the nations. 

I don’t believe that any one can doubt this, when we 
look at the history of the human race, the corruption of 
our cities, of our politics, of the rulers of the great na- 
tions of the earth, and the awful wars and massacres 
that take place in semi-civilized countries with a tacit 
recognition of the great nations of the earth. 

Jesus calls Satan the spiritual father of the human 
race: “Ye are of your father the devil:’’ and He was 
speaking to the Jews the most religious and the best 
people of the world at that time. 

Paul tells us that Satan is the God of this world. 

As the father, he has given man his nature; as the 
god, he demands man’s worship and reverence and 
obedience; and that he has it we can’t deny. 

Satan is more popular today than Jesus; Hell is 
more popular than Heaven. 

More people go the Broad Way than the Narrow. 

More people worship the Devil than worship God. 

THE AUTHORITY OF DEATH 

Jesus tells us in Luke 12:4-5, “Fear him, who after 
he hath killed hath power to cast into Hell: yea, I say 
unto you, Fear him.*’ 

Jesus declares that Satan has the authority of death 
and the authority to cast into Hell. 

Hebrews 2:14, “Since then the children are sharers 
in flesh and blood, he also himself in like manner par- 
took of the same ; that through death he might bring to 


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nought him that had the power of death, that is, the 
devil.’* 

Here Paul tells us the same thing, that Satan has the 
authority of death. 

This seems a hideous fact, that the authority of 
death, to slay men, is in the hands of our Enemy. 

In Revelation 12:7-9, “And there was war in 
Heaven: Michael and his angels going forth to war 
with the dragon : and the dragon warred and his angels : 
and they prevailed not, neither was their place found 
any more in Heaven. 

“And the great dragon was cast down, the old ser- 
pent, he that is called the Devil and Satan, the deceiver 
of the whole world; he was cast down to the earth.” 

The earth is Satan’s realm; here he rules over de- 
mons and nations. 

Jude 9 tells us that arch-angels respect the Devil and 
show him a peculiar reverence. 

Zech. 3:1-2, “And he showed me Joshua the High 
Priest standing before the angel of Jehovah, and Satan 
standing at his right hand to be his adversary. 

“And the angel of Jehovah said unto Satan, Jeho- 
vah rebuke thee, O Satan; yea, Jehovah that hath cho- 
sen Jerusalem rebuke thee: is not this a brand plucked 
out of the fire?” 

Here the angel of Jehovah dares not directly rebuke 
Satan, but shows him a peculiar respect and honor. 

Satan is greater than any angelic being in Heaven; 
only God and Jesus Christ are greater. 


76 THE FATHER AND HIS FAMILY 


DEMON DOMINION 

Daniel 10:13, “But the Prince of the kingdom of 
Persia withstood me one and twenty days ; but Michael 
one of the chief princes, came to help me.” 

Daniel had been praying for one and twenty days 
and wondered why his prayers were not answered. 

Suddenly an angel appears and makes the statement 
that he had been held up one and twenty days by the 
Prince of the kingdom of Persia, not a human Prince, 
because no human could have intercepted an angelic 
being, but a demon who was ruling over the kingdom of 
Persia had stopped him on his way to Babylon to bring 
God’s message to Daniel. 

The angel also makes another declaration. 

He says that he is going back now and fight with this 
same Prince of Persia, indicating that every kingdom 
is ruled by a demon; that, just as Paul declares, our 
combat is not against flesh and blood but against princi- 
palities and powers and world rulers of this darkness; 
that there are different degrees of demoniacal domin- 
ion; that the world is divided up into kingdoms and 
states, and communities, and over each one a demon 
holds sway. 

This, I have become convinced, is true, for in my 
evangelistic work I find a different kind of demon in al- 
most every community. 

This is uncanny and an unpleasant subject, but 
nevertheless it is imperative that the Church know 
about it. 


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In 1 Jofin 3:10 and John 8 : 44 he is called the spir- 
itual Father of the human race: “Ye are of your father 
the devil,” and, “In this are manifest the children of 
God and the children of the devil.” 

1 John 5:19 “The whole human race lieth in the 
embrace of Satan.” 

He has a peculiar dominance over the nations of the 
earth. 

The great war now raging in Europe is simply a 
manifestation of Satanic dominance. 

It would seem as though Revelation 12:11 is being 
fulfilled, as though Satan has already come down to 
this earth full of wrath, knowing that his days are short. 

HIS CHARACTER 

We can best understand Satan’s nature in the same 
way that we understand God’s, that is, by his Names. 

The whole series of revelations of God in the Old 
Testament are revelations through the Names that He 
gives, and therefore we will study the names of our 
great Adversary, Satan, in order to discover his 
character. 

“When any one heareth the word of the kingdom, 
and understandeth it not, then cometh the Evil One, 
and snatcheth away that which hath been sown in the 
heart.” Matt. 13:19. 

Here he is called the Evil One of the earth. 

Verses 38-39 of the same chapter, “And the field 
is the world; and the good seed, these are the sons of 
the kingdom; and the tares are the sons of the Evil 
One ; and the Enemy that sowed them is the Devil : and 


78 THE FATHER AND HIS FAMILY 


the harvest is the end of the world ; and the reapers are 
the angels. ” 

Here he is called the Devil and the Father of the 
tares. 

He not only steals away the good seed that is sown 
in the hearts of men but he also sows tares and wicked- 
ness in the world. 

His name “Devil” means “Accuser,” Defamer,” 
“Calumniator,” “Slanderer.” 

These are titles that describe his character. 

The very word “Devil” has enwrapt within it all 
the significance of these four synonyms. 

HE IS THE ACCUSER 

He accuses the brethren day and night before God. 

He is the Defamer; he is defaming the Church and 
the character of God and the integrity of Jesus contin- 
ually. 

He is the Calumniator ; he is ever bringing railing ac- 
cusations, vile unclean accusations, against the human. 

He is the Slanderer; he retails all that is vile and 
unclean. 

He stirs up dissensions; bitter awful scandals are 
the delight of this arch-fiend. 

It would be well for us to stop here and notice this 
fact, that neither God nor Satan can minister to or 
destroy the human, but through the human. 

HE USES MAN 

Satan must use human lips or pen to do his dirty 
work for him. 


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He has no power to defile or to destroy or to lead 
astray, except he has a human instrument. 

God has no power to bless, to inspire, to lift, to save 
men except through a human instrument. 

It seems a crowning pity that man should lend him- 
self to the Devil as a medium through which the Devil 
can work to destroy the human race, but he does it. 

In 2 Cor. 11:3 he is called the Corrupter, “But I 
fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve in 
his craftiness, your minds should be corrupted from the 
simplicity and purity that is toward Christ.” 

Here Satan is the corruptor, the defiler, the robber of 
virtue and the purity of the heart. 

Satan has always delighted to be the instructor of 
youth. 

He uses some vile man or woman to defile a boy or 
girl and then sends that boy or girl out as a missionary 
into our public schools and colleges to defile the minds 
of the innocent. 

How often our sweet baby boys and girls are cor- 
rupted and robbed of their purity of heart before they 
reach the grammar school grades ; nothing is left holy or 
pure to them. 

The holy secrets of life are all dragged into the filth 
and mire of vile conversation and suggestions, and our 
sweet babies come back to us scarred forever by Satan’s 
defilement. 

1 Thess. 3:5, “For this cause I also, when I could 
no longer forbear, sent that I might know your faith* 


80 THE FATHER AND HIS FAMILY 


lest by any means the Tempter had tempted you and 
our labor should be in vain.” 

Here he assumes a new guise, the Tempter. 

He is the sly serpent, tempting Eve from her purity ; 
and Paul fears that the virgin Church of Thessalonica 
shall be tempted from her love and fidelity to her Lord. 

He is called the Seducer. 

No name is so vile in our English as that, and Satan 
is known as the Seducer of the virtue and purity of the 
Church of Jesus Christ. 

He is vile, sly, and cruel, the old serpent. 

Rev. 20:2 he is a constellation of names that are 
hideous to contemplate, ‘‘the dragon, the old serpent 
which is the Devil and Satan.” 

PASSION DANCE 

Perhaps the name of all names here is ‘‘the old 
serpent.” 

The word ‘‘serpent” really means the fascinator, and 
how truly Satan has fascinated men and women of all 
ages since the Fall. 

He has given to us the ball-room with its fascinating 
body-gripping passion music, imported to us from the 
South Sea Islands, from Cuba, and the negroes of the 
South, music that throbs and pulsates with a passion 
that stirs all that is worst in fallen man. 

It is no wonder that 90 per cent of the girls to-day 
in the houses of ill-fame in this country went there 
through the public ball. 

There is nothing that so un-mans a man and un-WQ- 


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mans a woman and throws them open to the God of 
Lust as this subtle passion music of the modern tango 
type. 

Satan has reached his highest point of fascination in 
this subtle dangerous type of music. 

He could only reach a few through the so-called 
classic music, but passion music is based on one of na- 
ture’s perverted fundamental laws. 

But the dance-hall is not the only place where he 
fascinates. 

There is the card table over which $80,000,000 
pass daily, where men blow their brains out, where they 
throw manhood and character to the winds, where they 
barter love and home. 

And not only does he fascinate with cards and the 
dance-hall but also with the theater and moving pictures 
that to-day are holding out a fascination that is empty- 
ing our Churches, wrecking the students in our schools, 
destroying the boyhood and the girlhood of the nation. 

Oh, Satan is a fascinator! 

As the bird is fascinated by the serpent, so is the girl 
and the boy, the man and the woman, fascinated by the 
“old serpent” to-day, and they walk with closed eyes 
and benumbed sensibilities into his very jaws. 

In Col. 1 : 1 3 he is called the “Power of Darkness” 
out of which we are “translated into the kingdom of the 
Son of His Love.” 

Darkness stands for ignorance; ignorance has ever 
been Satan’s choicest weapon to keep in bondage the 
great hordes of the human. 


82 THE FATHER AND HIS FAMILY 


He has bound India, China, and Africa in the bonds 
of darkness. 

He has held the hosts of the earth’s great family in 
bitter, soul-blighting ignorance. 

Not only has he bound with ignorance but he has 
given them a fear of light so that they light the force 
that would set them free. 

The light hurts their eyes. 

The battle between Light and Darkness has gone on 
down through the ages. 

The darkness tried to overcome the light during the 
days of the Incarnation. 

Oh, the bitter sins of darkness, the unnumbered sins 
of darkness ! 

Darkness is really the realm of Satan. 

But I want you to look once more at that hideous 
constellation of horror in Rev. 1 2. 

Here he is called the Dragon, the Devil, the father 
of hatred, the father of murder, the Adversary, the Old 
Serpent whose deadly coils have crushed the life out of 
nation after nation and proud city after proud city, un- 
til to-night their only monument is the wreckage of their 
past glory that we see in the piles of their mighty ruins. 

SATAN’S REPUTATION 

John 8:44, “Ye are of your father the Devil, and 
the lusts of your father it is your will to do. He was 
a murderer from the beginning, and standeth not in the 
truth, because there is no truth in him ; he is a liar and 
the father of lies.” 


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83 


Here Jesus gives Satan a reputation that is not envi- 
able. 

He is called a murderer from the beginning, and 
stands not in the truth for there is no truth in him; he 
is called a liar and the father of lies. 

Perhaps the badge of the unregenerate human to-day 
is the lie. 

The human race are liars! 

Lying is as natural as eating or drinking or breathing. 

To overcome lying is one of the most difficult things 
that any man or woman ever attempted. 

We lie in dress, in our appearance; we lie in our 
speech ; we lie with our eyes, with our hands, with our 
pens ; we lie with words, and without words ; we lie in 
business and in the pulpit. 

The newspapers can be called the record of liars ; no 
one takes the modern newspaper seriously; you can’t 
do it. 

Satan is truly a murderer of characters, and then he 
covers his awful tracks with a series of fabrications 
most malicious, but that does not seem to be his worst 
name ; he has another honorary degree. 

He is called in Revelation the Deceiver of the whole 
earth. 

This is to me the bitterest fact that we have to face 
in connection with the Devil, that he has deceived the 
whole inhabited earth, that no man lives or has lived, 

He has made sin appear beautiful ; he has made error 
but Satan has fooled him and deceived him. 


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THE FATHER AND HIS FAMILY 


seem as truth, lust as love, crime as virtue, and decep- 
tion as good politics. 

He deceives the babe, the youth, and young 
manhood. 

He deceives us in the prime of life ; he deceives us on 
the brink of the grave when faltering footsteps seek for 
a guide. 

He has deceived us as a world, as nations, as cities, 
as schools, as homes, and as individuals. 

He has laid his hand upon our educational system 
and has made it a farce. 

Satan is humanity’s Nemesis. 

From its cradle to its grave he has sought to utterly 
destroy the human. 

His master stroke is compelling man to carry out his 
wicked design against God and God’s eternal purpose 
for man. 

Man is helpless without God’s aid to escape his 
power. 


satan’s time-limit 

There are those who have believed that the Time 
of the Gentiles began with Nebuchadnezzar’s domin- 
ion, that is, the Gentile’s world dominion. 

We know that the Greek word for Gentile means 
nations, and when Jesus in Luke 21 :24 speaks of the 
Times of the Gentiles being fulfilled or the Times of 
the Nations, He has reference to a wider interpretation 
of humanity than this limited view will admit. 

Paul speaking of the same thing in Romans 1 1 :25, 


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says, “that a hardening in part hath befallen Israel, un- 
til the fulness of the Gentiles be come in,” the fulness 
of the Gentiles being the fulness of the nations. 

We know that the nations of the earth are under the 
dominion of the Devil, and Jesus and Paul both ev- 
idently have reference to the end of the Satanic 
dominion. 

When Jesus began His ministry and began to cast 
out demons, we have record of a remarkable statement 
made by a demon which He was casting out. 

In Matthew 8:29, demons cried, “What have we 
to do with Thee, Thou Son of God? art Thou come 
hither to torment us before the time?” 

Again in Rev. 12:12, “Therefore rejoice, O Heav- 
en, and ye that dwell therein ; woe to the earth and sea, 
because the Devil has gone down to thee with great 
wrath, knowing that he hath but a short time.” 

From these and other Scriptures, we learn that Satan 
recognized that his dominion was time-limited. 

It would seem then that when God gave Adam do- 
minion over the earth and the work of His hands, that 
this dominion was limited as one of our modern leases 
is limited. 

Adam had dominion over the earth for a certain 
number of years, whether it be six or seven thousand, 
or how long, we do not know. 

When Adam committed High Treason against God 
and turned this dominion and authority over into the 
hands of Satan, Satan took Adam’s lease and conse- 


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quently Satan’s dominion will last as long as Adam’s 
would have lasted had he not sinned. 

It is evident that Satan’s dominion ends at the Second 
Coming of the Lord Jesus. 

The dominion of man is really now the dominion of 
Satan, or, as Paul puts it, “the Times of the Gentiles,** 
or of the nations, which is the time of Satan’s dominion 
over the human race. 

The demons that were cast out by Jesus knew their 
time-limit and they dreaded being cast into the Pit oi 
Abyss before their time, and they appealed to His 
justice and said, “Hast Thou come to cast us into the 
Abyss before our time?’’ And Jesus said, “No, I will 
not do it.’* 

And in the Scripture just quoted it says, Satan will 
come down to the earth with great wrath knowing that 
the days of his authority are numbered. 

That will give a reason likely for The Great T ribu- 
lation which ends this dispensation. 

Satan, as he sees the hours of his dominion over man 
draw to a close will pour out his bitterest vials upon the 
human race to hurt God and crush humanity before he 
is finally cast into the “Lake of Fire.*’ 

We are living to-day in the days of Satan’s domin- 
ion, but thank God, there is a time-limit to it. 

Here are some facts about Satan that will aid us. 

First, He was an angel of light and led the worship 
of Heaven. 

Second, He was “The anointed cherub that cover- 
eth,’’ stood near the Throne. 


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Third, He fell by trying to take the Throne from 
God. 

Fourth, He was perfect in beauty and wisdom. 

Fifth, He lost none of his wisdom. 

Sixth, His nature was changed by his fall. 

Seventh, Adam gave him Dominion of the Universe. 

Eighth, He Rules Earth and Man. 

Ninth, He has power to bring storms, pestilence, 
wars, disease and death. 

Tenth, He is seeking God’s place in our hearts, he 
wants our worship. 

Eleventh, He has access to God to accuse the 
Church. 

Twelfth, He is to be bound and cast into Hell at 
Christ’s coming. 

Thirteenth, At Judgment he goes into the “Lake of 
Fire” and that ends his awful reign. 


CHAPTER 

THE 

FIFTH 


HELL 

If there be a Hell, a place of confinement, a prison for 
the incorrigibly wicked, it matters not the nature of it, it 
will be a place of torment. 

Under the most humane conditions possible in this 
century in which we are living, a prison is a prison, and 
it is horrible even to contemplate. 

What we want in this discussion is to know what the 
Word of God teaches in regard to the state of the 
wicked after death. 

It may be interesting for us to notice this, that Hell is 
the jail where the wicked are locked up when under in- 
dictment until the court sits and their sentence is passed 
on them, then they go into what is called in Revelation 
the Lake of Fire, the Gehenna of the New Testament. 

The Lake of Fire is the Federal Prison of Eternity; 
Hell is simply the County Jail. 

Hell, you will find, is located in the heart of this 
planet. 

The Lake of Fire is outside of this planet. 

No one has yet been put into the Lake of Fire. 


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The wicked angels and wicked men are both locked 
up to-day in Hell, awaiting the resurrection of the 
wicked and the Judgment, after which they go to the 
Federal Prison. 

You know that Heaven is not the permanent abode 
of the Believer; it is merely a tentative place to which 
the disembodied spirit goes to await the return of the 
Lord Jesus and the first resurrection, when the Believer 
will receive his immortal body, and he is then ready to 
enter into the New Heavens and the New Earth, where 
he will dwell in an immortal physical body with his be- 
loved ones through Eternity. 

When the sinner dies to-day, he, in his spiritual form, 
goes to Hell to remain there until the Second Resurrec- 
tion when his old body will be raised full of sin and dis- 
ease and corruption. 

He will enter it again and stand in that physical 
body before the great White Throne of God, and Jesus 
Christ will be Judge, and then the dread sentence will 
be passed according to the Court’s findings, and he will 
be sent away, with the Devil, the False Prophet, and 
the fallen angels, into the Federal Prison of Eternity. 

The reason for Hell and the Lake of Fire is appar- 
ent to every thinking man. 

ETERNAL CRIMINALS 

Man is an Eternal Being. He belongs to the same 
class as God. 

If he dies a criminal then he enters Eternity as an 
eternal criminal. 


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There must be a prison; the criminals must be 
segregated. 

If they were permitted to roam indiscriminately 
through Eternity, they would demoralize the New 
Heavens and the New Earth. 

We have jails, State Prisons, and Federal Prisons 
for time criminals who break the laws of man. 

Who can raise a protest against God if He has a 
prison in which are incarcerated the men who violate 
the laws of Heaven, and who are eternal criminals ? 

The universal human believes in some kind of Hell 
and place of confinement for punishment after death, 
and this testimony is not easily ruled out of court. 

There is no type of testimony so convincing to a jury 
and judge as the testimony of universal human con- 
sciousness. 

There must be some basis of fact for this universal 
belief. 

All primitive peoples believe that the Good go to 
some kind of Heaven, and that the Evil go into 
confinement. 

It does not make any difference whether we believe 
in a literal Lake of Fire and Brimstone or if that term 
is only used to illustrate the torture and misery of con- 
finement and separation from God. 

A PRISON IS A PRISON 

The fact is, to be locked up in a Federal prison 
away from your loved ones with the loss of freedom, 
with a consciousness that all your mortal days are to be 


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spent behind those walls, that God’s great big out-of- 
doors is forever closed to you, that no longer can you go 
where you wish or come when you please, that you 
have lost the power of volition and of action, that a 
guard with a gun walks up and down the concrete 
corridor before your steel-barred doors in a uniform 
that becomes hateful to you, is Hell enough for any 
man. 

And if that is to last through Eternity, God help 
me, I want to evade it. 

I don’t need the fumes of sulphur, nor the creeping, 
biting, burning worms of Hell described in Scripture. 

All that is necessary to make it Hell for me is to be 
shut in with the incorrigibly wicked through Eternity, 
that I must be associated with the blasphemers and mur- 
derers, with the whoremongers, the liar, the thief, the 
dissolute women of all ages, never to see a pure face 
again, never to hear a baby’s prattle, never to hear a 
hymn of praise or the folk-lore songs of love, nothing 
but bitter, biting, hideous blasphemy, the gnawing of 
the tongue, the gnashing of teeth, the biting agony of 
long confinement. 

As for me, let me escape it ; let me never be in danger 
of it. 


MEANING OF WORD 

The word for Hell in the Hebrew is Sheol. 

There are many synonyms as Rephaim, the Shades, 
the Pit, the Lowest Deeps, but the word “Sheol” 
occurs seventy-six times in the Old Testament. 


92 THE FATHER AND HIS FAMILY 


The Greek word of the New Testament is Hades, 
there are several synonyms used in the Greek meaning 
the same place. 

The Hebrew word means “Mansions of the Dead,” 
“the Invisible Abode,” “the Place of Punishment,” 
“the lowest place or state,” or, as another puts it, “the 
prisons of the Incorrigible,” ’’the place of restraint.” 

The reason for Hell has been suggested in my in- 
troduction; let me state it again. 

Man is eternal; angels are eternal. 

When men and angels become criminals they be- 
come eternal criminals. 

Being an eternal criminal, there must be a place for 
eternal restraint. 

Man is a spirit and there must be a spirit home for 
man. 

Man being a spirit, criminal, and traitor, a jail is 
imperative and after Judgment the Federal prison is a 
necessity. 

Hell was not made for man. 

It was prepared for the Devil and his angels. 

Heaven and earth were the places prepared for man. 

God has been compelled through man’s sin to build, 
in spite of love, a place of confinement for Eternity’s 
criminals. 

God intended originally that man should live on the 
earth eternally, it was made for this purpose, and man 
was made with an eternal body, but when he sinned 
and became mortal. Hell had to be fitted for his 
confinement. 


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God did not intend originally ever to separate man 
from his body, so Heaven can never be considered 
man’s final Home. 

Man’s final home must be a place where he can 
dwell in a physical body eternally, either in confine- 
ment or blissful liberty. 

HELL AND GRAVE 

There are some teachers who have industriously 
told us with pen and voice that Hell and the Grave 
were synonymous terms. 

The reason for this error, for error it is, is that the 
King James Version erroneously translates the word 
“Shed” thirty-five times as “Grave.” 

When they translated it, there was not the know- 
ledge of the Hebrew language that we have gained in 
this last century. 

We know that there are many errors in this transla- 
tion that have made it imperative that a new translation 
be given to the world, and I look upon the American 
Revision as the very best, and recommend it to every 
zealous Bible reader to use in preference to the King 
James Version. 

The use of a word in either the Hebrew, the Greek, 
or in our English, determines its meaning, and it will be 
interesting to notice how the word “Sheol” is used in 
its seventy-six places in the Old Testament. 

We wish to compare it with the word “Queber” 
which means Grave or Sepulcher, and by this compar- 
ison it will be very easy to determine whether the two 
words can be used interchangeably or not. 


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A VITAL CONTRAST 

The word “Shed” is never used in the plural; th« 
word “Queber” is used in the plural twenty-nine times. 

The word “Shed” is never located on the surface of 
the earth; “Queber” is located on the surface of the 
earth thirty-two times. 

Bodies are never put into “Shed” by man, but bod- 
ies are put into “Queber” thirty-seven times. 

No individual has a “Sheol” of his own, but indiv- 
uals have “Quebers” forty-four times. 

Man never puts another man into “Sheol, ’’but man 
puts man into his Grave or “Queber” thirty-three times. 

Man never digs a “Sheol;” man digs a “Queber” 
six times. 

Man never touches “Sheol,” but it speaks of man’s 
touching “Queber” five times. 

By this we see that the word “Shed” is never used 
interchangeably nor in the sense of Grave where the hu- 
man body is placed by man. 

It is never used synonymously with the word that we 
translate grave or sepulcher, and by its use it is very 
clear that “Shed” and “Queber” are not the same, 
and that “Shed” can not be translated grave. 

The translators of our American Revision saw this, 
and instead of translating the word at all, they simply 
put it in the English untranslated. 

The one who tells you that the Grave and Hell are 
synonymously used is either ignorant of the use of the 
words and their meanings in Scripture, or else he is 
dishonest. 

We would prefer to feel that he is ignorant. 


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THE LOCATION OF HELL 

This is perhaps one of the most hideous facts of all 
Scripture. 

If there be a Hell, there must be a location of it. 

Some theorists have claimed that its location is in 
some of the stars, but Scripture is very definite in re- 
gard to it. 

In Numbers 16: is the story of Korah’s Rebellion. 

He and a portion of the Princes of Israel rebelled 
against Moses as leader. 

“And Moses rose up and he spake unto the 

congregation, saying, Depart, I pray you, from the 
tents of these wicked men, and touch nothing of theirs, 

lest ye be consumed in all their sins And Moses 

said, Hereby ye shall know that Jehovah hath sent me 
to do all these works;. .If these men die the common 
death of all men. . . .then Jehovah hath not sent me. 
But if Jehovah make a new thing, and the ground open 
its mouth, and swallow them up, with all that appertain 
unto them and they go down alive into Sheol ; then ye 
shall understand that these men have despised Jehovah. 

And it came to pass, as he made an end of speaking 
all these words, that the ground clave asunder that was 
under them; and the earth opened its mouth, and swal- 
lowed them up, and their households, and all the men 
that appertained unto Korah, and all their goods. So 
they went down alive into Sheol.” 

Notice that Moses says that God is going to do a 
new thing, that the earth is going to open her mouth. 


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and that Korah and his followers with their wives and 
little ones, with their tents and all that appertain unto 
them are going down alive into Sheol. 

The word “Queber” is not used here, it is that 
hideous word “Sheol.** 

These men are criminals and they are going down to 
suffer the penalty that belongs to men who have dared 
to rebel against God and His prophet. 

This is the only time that men are literally translated 
into Hell. 

Elijah is the sample of a man translated into Heaven 
in the physical, and Korah, Dathan, and Abiram with 
their families are an illustration of a physical translation 
into the Lower World. 

This account is too vivid and too clear in description 
to need any exposition. 

The location of Hell here is clearly shown. 

“In the day when he went down to Sheol I caused a 

mourning I made the nations to shake at the sound 

of his fall, when I cast him down to Sheol with them 
that descend into the pit ; ... . all that drink water, were 
comforted in the nether parts of the earth. They also 
went down into Sheol with him unto them that are slain 
by the sword.’’ Ezekiel 31 : 1 3-1 8. 

Here Hell is located in the “nether parts of the 
earth.*’ 

Men “went down to Sheol,’’ were “cast down to 
Sheol,’’ “they descended into the pit,’’ “they went 
down into Sheol.’’ All these terms indicate location. 

“Wail for the multitude of Egypt, and cast them 


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down unto the nether parts of the earth, with 

them that go down into the pit. The strong among the 
mighty shall speak to him out of the midst of Sheol with 
them that help him, they are gone down, they lie still.” 
Ezekiel 32 : 1 7-2 1 . 

Here Hell is located again in the nether parts of the 
earth; it tells the ‘‘strong among the mighty shall speak 
to him out of the midst of Sheol with them that help 
him, with them that have gone down.” 

Here men are in the nether parts of the earth, they 
are in Hell, they are conscious and they are speaking. 


NEW TESTAMENT HADES 

‘‘And thou, Capernaum, shalt thou be exalted unto 
Heaven? Thou shalt go down unto Hades.” ‘‘As 
Jonah was three days and three nights in the fish’s belly, 
so shall the Son of Man be three days and three nights 
in the heart of the earth.” Matt. 1 1 :23; 12:40. 

Joseph’s tomb where the body of Jesus lay can never 
be called the heart of the earth. 

‘‘Who shall descend into the abyss” or literally, 
‘‘the bottomless pit?” Romans 10:7. 

This abyss or bottomless pit is described in Rev. 9: 
1-2, ‘‘And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star 
from heaven fallen unto the earth : and there was given 
to him the key of the abyss. 

And he opened the pit of the abyss ; and there went 
up a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great 
furnace.” 


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“And he opened the pit” as a shaft is cut by a miner 
down into a coal vein. 

Here is a hideous picture. 

A great shaft is cut down through the crust of the 
earth, down into the abyss which is another title for 
Hell, and smoke and fire and demons ascend. 

“Now this. He ascended, what is it but that He also 
descended into the lower parts of the earth?” Eph. 

4:9. 

And this is fully substantiated by Rev. 20:13-14, 
“And the sea gave up the dead that were in it; and 
death and Hades gave up the dead that were in them: 
and they were judged every man according to their 
works. And death and Hades were cast into the lake 
of fire. This is the second death, even the lake of fire. 
If any was not found written in the book of life 
he was cast into the lake of fire.” 

Here Hades, or Hell, is taken out of the earth at the 
time of the earth’s purification before it is returned to 
Edenic purity and beauty. 

Hell is taken out; that hideous prison house of the 
wicked where Satan is going to be bound a thousand 
years with his demons is taken out and cast into the 
Lake of Fire, and then the earth is purified. 

By these descriptions it is very easy to see that Hell is 
located in the heart of the earth. 

Now your opinion and mine in regard to this is of no 
value whatever. 

We might have quoted many other Scriptures to 
prove this, but this is enough. 

The Word of God is final. 


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THE NATURE OF HELL 

A very vivid picture of Hell is given in the 1 4th of 
Isaiah where it describes the death of Nebuchadnezzar, 
the great Emperor of Babylon, and his descent into 
Hell. 

“Sheol from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee 
at thy coming ; it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all 
the chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their 
thrones all the kings of the nations.” Isaiah 14:9. 

It would seem as though Satan was preparing a great 
reception for the world Emperor, Nebuchadnezzar, as 
though he had raised up the thrones of all the kings and 
they sat upon them with their officers and slaves gath- 
ered about them in Oriental splendor. 

And then down from the upper world is brought the 
great Nebuchadnezzar, the world’s greatest Ruler. 

He is suddenly ushered into the presence of these 
kings and princes sitting upon their mock thrones. 

And they all answer with one cry, ‘‘What? Hast 
thou fallen as low as we? Is the majesty of thy great- 
ness and the music of thy singers brought down to Hell? 
Art thou as weak as we?” 

This wail of lost men, of kings and princes, of gen- 
erals and great financiers, sitting on their mock thrones 
in pitiable agony and helplessness meets the ear. 

‘‘The worm is spread under thee,” they cry, ‘‘and 
worms cover thee,” crawling fiery serpents, coiling and 
uncoiling about the spirit of the great Nebuchadnezzar. 

He has made kingdoms desolate; he has slain the 


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mother with her babe; he has crushed nation after na- 
tion; he has put out the eyes of kings and princes; and 
now in a horrid Hell he writhes in agony, and his agony 
is witnessed by the assembled multitudes, many of 
whom he sent there. 

In Isaiah 66:24, it speaks of Hell as a place where 
the “fire is not quenched, and the worm shall not die, 
an abhorrence to all flesh.’’ 

Daniel tells us that the resurrection of the wicked 
shall be a resurrection of shame and contempt. 

According to Matt. 25 :41 ,46, it is the home of the 
cursed, and eternal fire, which was prepared for the 
Devil and the rebellious angels, now has become the 
jail and home of the wicked human; it is called the 
place of eternal punishment or constraint, a place out of 
which no pardoned has yet gone or ever can go; no 
pardon can reach them, horrible as it may seem. 

In 2 Peter 2:4, it is called the pit or prisons of pun- 
ishment, and in Rev. 9:1-2, it is a place of fire of sul- 
phuric fumes, the home of demons ; but in Luke 1 6 
Jesus gives us a picture of Hell that only He could give. 

This is not a parable, it is not placed among the 
parables. 

He says, “A certain rich man;’’ He is quoting 
history, and He gives a description of Hell and of tor- 
ment, of conscious intelligible torment, that surpasses 
Dante in his Inferno, or Milton in his Paradise Lost. 

It would be well here to note this fact, that during 
the period from the fall of man until Christ ascended 
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high after his resurrection, the Underworld was in 
two compartments with an impassable gulf separating 
them. 

On one side were the Old Testament saints who had 
trusted in the Blood Covenant, the Abrahamic Blood 
Covenant, so it is called by Jesus Abraham’s bosom. 

Across this impassable gulf, the incorrigible wicked 
were incarcerated awaiting the resurrection when they 
should be cast into the Lake of Fire. 

It would seem evident that when Jesus arose from 
the dead, and had carried His blood into the Holy of 
Holies in Heaven, and had satisfied the claims of 
justice in the redemption of the transgressors under the 
first Covenant, that He again went back down into 
what is known as Paradise and preached to the souls 
waiting there, and carried to them the good news of 
redemption, and then they with Him ascended up to 
Heaven, for as far as we know, no human beings had 
gone into Heaven unless it were Elijah. 

No one could go there because the sin problem was 
not yet settled ; they only had a promise of redemption 
written in the blood of bulls and goats. 

Jesus comes to die for the sinner under the first 
Covenant, so that they that were called should receive 
their portion of the inheritance. 

So we can understand this picture in the 1 6th of 
Luke. 

“Now there was a certain rich man, and he was 
clothed in purple and fine linen, faring sumptuously 
every day: and a certain beggar named Lazarus was 


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laid at his gate, full of sores, and desiring to be fed with 
the crumbs that fell from the rich man’s table, yea, even 
the dogs came and licked his sores. 

“And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and that 
he was carried away by the angels into Abraham’s 
bosom : and the rich man also died and was buried. 

“And in Hades he lifted up his eyes, being in tor- 
ments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his 
bosom. 

“And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have 
mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip 
of his finger in water, and cool my tongue ; for I am in 
anguish in this flame. 

“But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy 
lifetime receivedst thy good things, and Lazarus in like 
manner evil things; but now here he is comforted, and 
thou art in anguish. 

“And besides all this, between us and you there is a 
great gulf fixed, that they that would pass from hence 
to you may not be able, and that none may cross over 
from thence to us. 

“And he said, I pray thee therefore, father, that 
thou wouldest send him to my father’s house ; for I have 
five brethren; that he may testify unto them, lest they 
also come into this place of torment. 

“But Abraham saith. They have Moses and the 
prophets; let them hear them. 

“And he said, Nay, father Abraham: but if one go 
to them from the dead, they will repent. 

“And he said unto him, If they hear not Moses and 


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the prophets neither will they be persuaded, if one rise 
from the dead.” 

We understand this story to be a purely Jewish 
story, that there is no Paradise to-day, but that there 
is a Hell. 

Paradise was emptied, and all its inhabitants taken 
to Heaven. 

This rich man went to Hell because he had broken 
the fundamental principles of the Mosaic Law: He did 
not love his neighbor as himself. 

The whole law was summed up in this: Thou shalt 
love the Lord, thy God, with all thy heart, and thy 
neighbor as thyself.” 

This he had broken and was paying the penalty 
for it. 

Now I want you to notice some significant facts in 
regard to man as he goes into Hell. 

‘‘And in Hades he lifted up his eyes, being in 
torment.” 

Notice that he has all the faculties of the soul. 

Man is not a physical being, he is primarily a spirit. 

His tongue was burning in that intense heat, ‘‘For I 
am in anguish in this flame.” 

Whether we want to insist that this is purely figura- 
tive language or not, is beside the question. 

The fact is, that Jesus declared that this man was in 
torments in the flames. 

If the flame was simply a burning conscience, then 
give me literal fire. 

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Memory lives in Hell. 

Two things will haunt man in Hell and fill him with 
sleepless agony. 

First, the sins that he has committed against God and 
man ; and second, that he had an opportunity to escape 
it, but he resolutely preferred Hell to Heaven, and he 
gets it. 

Hell is here a place of anguish, and then the great 
gulf fixed so that there is no passing over from one to 
the other. 

There is no second probation promised here. 

The man who is guilty enough to be sent to Hell is 
guilty enough to stay in Hell. 

Then we come to the most pathetic thing. 

He said, “Will you not send Lazarus up to earth? 
I have five brothers there, lest they also come into this 
place of torment.” 

Oh, the unspeakable pathos of this hopeless request ! 

What a preacher a soul would make, fresh from the 
agonies of Hell, but men would not listen to his 
message. 

Some of the brainiest men that we have in this 
country have an idea if they can keep the subject of 
Heaven and Hell and the sufferings of Christ from 
their minds, or stay away from places where they hear 
it preached, that they will escape the responsibility of 
knowledge and that in itself will prove their salvation 
from Hell. 

Oh, how fallacious is that dangerous sophistry! 


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But the answer came, “They have Moses and the 
prophets, let them hear them.’* 

“Nay, father Abraham, but if one go from here up 
there, him they will listen to.” 

But did they? 

Jesus went from Hell’s dark dungeons and fiery 
awful sufferings up to earth and gave His testimony, 
but have men heeded it? 

Nay, verily! Men ridicule it to-day. 

WHO GO TO HELL 

Thank God, we do not believe that babies go there. 

We trust, though we could not prove it from Scrip- 
ture, that all infants till they come to the age of account- 
ability, are saved on the ground of the finished work of 
Christ. 

Personally, I have no doubt in regard to this. 

Paslm 9 says, “All the nations that forget God 
are cast into Hell,” that “the fearful and unbelieving 
are cast into Hell.” 

Every man that refuses to recognize the Lordship of 
Jesus Christ or confess Him as a Savior, will go to Hell. 

There is no distinction; “Unless a man is born from 
above, he can not enter the Kingdom of God.” 

And if he does not enter the Kingdom of God, he 
will enter the Kingdom of Satan. 

There will be no educational test, no philanthropical 
test, no financial test; the man who is not sheltered by 
the sacrifice of Jesus Christ will go to Hell as surely as 
the Devil. 


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Man does not go to Hell because of what he has 
done, but because of what he is. 

Man goes to Hell on purely intellectual grounds ; he 
can evade it if he wishes. 

He goes to Hell to-day in the face of modern civili- 
zation with his eyes wide open, and because he prefers 
Hell to Heaven. 

He goes there because he has served Satan, and be- 
cause he prefers Satan as his god to the God and Father 
of our Lord Jesus Christ. 

Sin is more attractive to him and Hell less fearful, 
than Heaven. 


CHAPTER 


THE 

SIXTH 

MAN'S NEED OF A MEDIATOR 

In the preceding chapter we found that man is 
a legal outlaw; he has lost his approach to God and 
is described by Paul in Eph. 2:12: “separated from 
Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, 
strangers from the Covenants of the promise, having no 
hope, without God in the world.” 

Notice first, “alienated from Christ;” there is no 
life, no approach to God but through a mediator, and 
man has no mediator. 

Second, he is a stranger from the Covenants of the 
promise. 

Man has no covenant claims on God; he has for- 
feited every right which God had conferred upon him. 

God had given him legal rights of approach and 
standing before Him. 

These by his treason, he forfeited and now his 
position is described as having no hope and without 
God in the world. 

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has the power of death, man’s position is certainly 
desperate. 

But more than this, man is described in my previous 
lecture as having become a partaker of satanic nature. 

He is not only a subject of Satan politically, but he 
is vitally unioned with him, so he is described as by 
nature a child of wrath, spiritually dead, and a child 
of the Devil. 

By these descriptions, man’s case is absolutely 

hopeless. 

Man has no ground for prayer. 

If God hears his prayer, it is on the ground of grace 
alone. 

Before his treason, man had legal grounds for 
prayer. 

Man’s condition is described in Exodus 33:20, 
“And He said, thou canst not see my face, for man 
can not see me and live.’’ 

The testimony of universal human consciousness is 
that from the fall of man until Jesus Christ sat down 
at the Right Hand of the father, no human being has 
ever approached God but through a divinely appointed 
priesthood, over a bleeding sacrifice, by dreams, by 
visions, or angelic visitations. 

1 he universal man recognizes that he has no legal 
standing with Deity. 

The temples, altars, and priesthoods of all nations 
eloquently confess man’s consciousness of sin and fear 
of death and of Judgment to follow. 

The universal man fears death; the universal man 


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believes in a Judgment and punishment for guilt after 
death. 

Perhaps no more eloquent testimony on this phase 
of the theme could be offered than the black hopeless- 
ness of the heathen lands. 

India with its millions of priests struggling in absolute 
hopelessness, leading their soul-hungry people into still 
deeper darkness, is but one of many. 

None of the old religions of the world have any real 
hope of a solution of the sin problem or of man’s ability 
to approach God without fear. 

The human condition can be summed up in these 
awful words : 

No hope! The mind reels at the stroke; 

The dying flame, the trembling frame, 

The ashen lips that spoke. No hope! 

No hope! Earth’s language of despair; 

The aching heart, the bitter part, 

The soul’s sad solitaire. No hope! 

No hope! The heart shrinks from the gloom; 

The darkling cloud, Sin’s awful shroud, 

Comes with the sinner’s doom. No hope! 

No hope ! The winter blast of death ; 

Its icy kiss, the dark abyss. 

There’s frost upon its breath. No hope! 

No hope, no hope in Jesus, 

The death knell of the soul; 

No hope, no hope in Jesus, 

While endless ages roll ! 


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Job in a very graphic way gathers up the dirge of hu- 
man hopelessness in his great master poem. 

As Goethe caught the inspiration from the folk lore 
of the Germanic people and gave it to us in Faust, so it 
has been the privilege of some seer or poet to be the 
voice of his people at different periods of human history. 

Job is not the poet of a single people but the poet of 
the human, the poet of the ages, and his theme can be 
called the question of the ages: “How can man stand 
right with God?” 

The sages and philosophers of all the ages have 
asked this same question in one form or another. 

You remember that the book of Job is the oldest of 
all the books of the Bible. 

It was written evidently by Jobab, a cousin of 
Abraham, about the time that Jacob goes into Egypt, 
and the portions that I read to you will show how live a 
subject was “Man’s Need of a Mediator’’ in Job’s day. 

Turn to Job 4, beginning with the 12th verse; here 
we have a picture of an Arab lying in his tent in an 
oasis in the desert. 

The night is cool and chill, the heavens are clear and 
the stars like jewels are sparkling through the mid- 
night air. 

The man is lying in his tent asleep; suddenly he is 
disturbed by a vision; let us read; “Now a thing was 
secretly brought to me, and mine ear received a whisper 
thereof. In thoughts from the visions of the night, 
when deep sleep falleth on men, fear came upon me, 
and trembling, which made all my bones to shake. 


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Then a spirit passed before my face; the hair of my 
flesh stood up. It stood still, but I could not discern 
the appearance thereof ; A form was before mine eyes : 
There was silence, and I heard a voice, saying, “Shall 
mortal man be just before God? Shall a man be pure 
before his Maker?’’ 

This is the old problem; this is the eternal problem 
that confronted the thinking man of all ages : Can mor- 
tal man be justified or acquitted before God? Shall 
fallen man be pure in the presence of his Maker? 

Now it will be of interest to note this word ‘mortal.* 

You will remember that the word ‘mortal’ applies 
only to the physical body, never to the spirit, and that 
in both the Hebrew and the Greek, it means “death- 
doomed,’’ “frail;’’ in other words, a subject of the 
Devil. 

Man became mortal when he passed under the do- 
minion of the Devil. 

Jesus was not mortal until He became our sin sub- 
stitute, and now the problem is, Shall a mortal man, or 
a death-doomed man, or a Satan-ruled man, that is, one 
of Satan’s subjects, stand uncondemned in the presence 
of God? 

In the 9th chapter of Job, there is a graphic picture 
of an aged man on his death-bed facing the problem of 
eternity, with all his faculties quickened by the near 
approach of a Judgment. 

Job is now speaking out the deepest soul agony of 
universal man. 

Let us get the picture clearly before our minds: A 


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man lying in a tent surrounded by those whom he loves, 
and he opens his heart with perfect freedom speaking 
out the fears that grip his soul in the death struggle. 

He cries, “My days are swifter than a runner. 
They flee away, they see no good. They are passed 
away as a swift ship ; as the eagle that swoopeth on her 
prey.’’ 

These are all figures of speech describing the rapid- 
ity with which days and months and years pass to 
the aged. 

Were we speaking to-day we would speak of the 
express train, the speeding auto, the hurtling aeroplane 
as it shoots across the face of the sun, swifter than a 
bird, all telling in living words how rapidly days and 
months dissolve into each other to the aged. 

He continues, “If I say I will forget my calamity, I 
will put off my sad countenance and be of good cheer, 
I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that Thou 
(God) will not hold me innocent; I shall be con- 
demned.” 

Conviction has laid its relentless grip upon his mind. 

Sorrow of approaching Judgment gathers in dark 
clouds over his spirit. 

The last sun of hope is rapidly setting in the evening 
of darkness. 

Not one ray of light penetrates the gloom of his tent. 

Every false hope has been shattered, he is alone with 
his sin, his guilt, and his despair, and he says, What is 
the use of trying to brighten up and put off my sad 
countenance; I am afraid of my sorrows. 


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It is the frankness of despair; it is the hopelessness 
of full-orbed knowledge, “I shall be condemned.” 

He knows it and then in almost petulant despair, he 
cries, ‘‘Why do I then labor in vain,” why spend my 
time making garments of figleaves? “If I wash myself 
with snow-water, and make my hands never so clean; 
yet wilt Thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own 
clothes shall abhor me.” 

Here are convictions and a consciousness of guilt 
that can not be smothered ; it must give vent to itself. 

Its agony is the outgushing torrent of stifled con- 
victions of years at last getting fair play. 

What a picture! “Thou wilt plunge me in the 
ditch and mine own clothes (or self-righteousness) shall 
abhor me ; for He is not a man, as I am, that I should 
answer Him, that we should come together in 
judgment.” 

Job knows that he cannot face God, for God is not 
mortal ; He is not under the bondage and guilt of sin as 
is Job. Then Job utters the saddest words that ever 
fell from the lips of a human. 

“There is no umpire betwixt us that might lay his 
hands upon us both.” 

In other words, there is no Mediator betwixt us who 
has a legal standing with God and at the same time can 
sympathize and understand as well as represent the 
human. 

This is Job’s cry for a Mediator; and it is not the 
cry of Job alone, but Job has gathered up the cry of the 
ages and breathes it forth in one hopeless sob. 


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How bitterly he says, “Let Him take His law. His 
rod away from me, and let not His terror make me 
afraid, then would I speak with Him face to face, but 
now I am not able.” 

Job has voiced Man’s Need of a Mediator. 

“How then can man be just before God? or how 
can he be clean that is born of woman? Behold, even 
the moon hath no brightness, and the stars are not pure 
in His sight: How much less man, that is a worm! 
And the son of man, that is a worm!’’ Job 25 : 4-6. 

This sounds almost like the New Testament: “How 
can he be clean who is born of woman?’’ 

The writer here has the fall of man through Eve be- 
fore his mind, and when he tells us that the stars are not 
pure in the sight of God, he is referring us to Adam’s 
treason when he turned creation over into the hands of 
the Devil, and Satan defiled it so that God can not look 
with joy upon it. 

And in speaking of man as a worm, he shows the 
depths into which man has fallen. The worm has ref- 
erence to Satan the Old Serpent, and man here who is 
a worm, is spiritually a child of the Devil, utterly 
hopeless, and without approach to God. 

It might be interesting to read Jer. 30:2 1 in this con- 
nection, “And their prince shall be of themselves, and 
their ruler shall procede from the midst of them and I 
will cause him to draw near and he shall approach me ; 
for who is he that hath had boldness of heart to ap- 
proach unto me? $aith Jehovah-” 


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Or, as it reads in the margin, “Who hath surety for 
his soul that he might approach Me.’* 

Jeremiah recognized that no man had a right to 
stand in God’s presence, nor power to do it, and he tells 
us that there is one being who will be able to draw near 
and stand uncondemned in God’s presence, our Media- 
tor, Christ. 

This gives us a picture of the utter despair, the per- 
fect hopelessness of the human race, and mark you, it 
is a legal hopelessness. 

Man is a legal criminal and if he ever stands right 
with God it must be done on legal grounds. 

Now we can understand more clearly the reason for 
the great religions of the world. 

All thinking men have sought and are seeking to-day 
a solution of the sin problem and grounds whereby man 
can stand uncondemned in the presence of God. 

You read in Gen. 3:9-10,22-24, “And Jehovah 
God called unto the man, and said unto him, Where 
art thou ? And he said, I heard thy voice in the gar- 
den and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid 
myself.’’ 

“And Jehovah God said, Behold, the man is become 
as one of us, to know good and evil ; and now, lest he 
put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and 
eat, and live forever — therefore Jehovah God sent him 
forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from 
whence he was taken. So he drove out the man; and 
he placed at the east of the garden of Eden the Cheru- 


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bim, and the flame of a sword which turned every way, 
to keep the way of the tree of life.” 

Adam was unable to stand in God’s presence after 
his sin; he was finally driven from the garden, and a 
flaming sword was placed at the gate so that man could 
not get to the tree of life. 

God would not permit man to eat of the tree of Life 
until the sin problem had been settled. 

It would have been an awful thing had God per- 
mitted man to eat of the tree of Life while under con- 
demnation of treason. 

Let me give you some illustrations of man attempting 
to force himself into the presence of God before Eternal 
Life came through Jesus Christ, and Justification on 
the grounds of His finished work. 

Leviticus 10:1-3 is one of those pathetic acts of 
Divine Justice that were necessary in order to cause 
Israel to know its spiritual condition before God. 

‘‘And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took 
each of them his censer, and put fire therein, and laid 
incense thereon, and offered strange fire before Jehovah, 
which He had not commanded them. And there came 
forth fire from before Jehovah, and devoured them and 
they died before Jehovah. Then Moses said unto 
Aaron, This is k that Jehovah spake, saying, I will be 
sanctified in them that come nigh me, and before all the 
people I will be glorified. And Aaron held his peace.” 

What a calamitous closing of the dedication of the 
priesthood ! 


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Aaron and his family that morning had been aspiring 
to the highest point of divine favor ; the tabernacle had 
been reared, the Shekinah presence had filled it with 
glory; the majesty of Jehovah was resting upon Israel. 

Behind them lay a series of divine interventions or 
miracles that had marked them as the chosen people of 
the God of the whole earth, and now Aaron’s firstborn, 
heir to the priesthood, with his brother, is< suddenly 
smitten with death before the whole congregation. 

What had occasioned it? 

Moses and Aaron at the close of the morning services 
had gone to their tents for the midday meal. 

These two sons had been lingering near the tent of 
meeting where the holy Ark of the Covenant had been 
placed, and the presence of Jehovah was abiding there. 

The young men, in a spirit of bravado or curiosity, 
take up censers with live coals, pour incense upon them, 
and attempt to enter the Holy of Holies without being 
invited by Jehovah, and contrary to law. 

No one but the High Priest himself could go in 
there, and he but once a year. 

Suddenly the young men stagger, stumble, and fall 
back across the threshhold, dead. 

A cry goes up from those that are looking on. 

Messengers run to the tent where Moses and Aaron 
are, and tell them of the awful calamity. 

Poor Aaron stands horrified, shocked, stunned, in 
the presence of his dead. 

Moses cries to him, “Aaron, this is what Jehovah 
spoke, saying, I shall be sanctified in them that come 


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nigh me, before all the people will I be glorified.” 
And Aaron held his peace. 

Israel had learned by this awful Judgment that man 
could not approach God but in His own appointed 
way. 

We have another sample of man’s attempting to 
approach Jehovah unauthorized in Numbers 1 6. 

It is the bitter story of Korah and his rebellion. 

Korah and a company of the leaders of Israel be- 
came jealous of Moses and Aaron, and insisted that 
they had as much right to approach Jehovah as had 
God’s appointed priests. 

Moses puts the issue to a test in the presence of the 
whole congregation. 

He invited Korah and his followers to appear before 
Jehovah with their censers ready to worship, and as 
soon as they came, Moses warned the people to get up 
from the tents of these wicked men who dared to ap- 
proach God uninvited and in their own way. 

No sooner had Moses ceased speaking than the earth 
opened its mouth and the fifty men with their families 
dropped down alive into Sheol. 

Israel ran frightened from the awful scene, filled 
with fear and reverence for such a Holy God. 

Another illustration is given us in 1 Sam. 6:19; the 
Ark of the Covenant had been captured because of 
Eli’s great sin. 

It had been taken down into Gath by the Philistines, 
and after a series of Judgments had fallen upon the 
heathen cities because of their desecration of the Ark, 


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they put it on a cart and sent it back to Beth-Shemesh. 

The cattle drawing the cart turned off from the road 
into the fields. 

When some of the people laboring in the field saw 
the Ark, the news spread rapidly over the hillsides till 
thousands and ten thousands of people gathered from 
the country around about, reverent and curious. 

And then a bolder spirit than the others drew near 
and threw off the heavy covering from the Ark of the 
Covenant, and the people for the first time saw that holy 
receptacle of the Ten Commandments. 

Suddenly a plague struck them and fifty thousand 
men fell dead upon the ground. 

Awful fear and consternation falls upon the people ; 
beating their breasts, they turn back to their homes. 

Israel has learned a lesson : that no one can approach 
God but through a High Priest or over a bleeding 
sacrifice. 

God’s character has not changed. 

Fallen man’s nature is the same. 

Man to-day can no more approach God without a 
Mediator than he could in the days of Israel. 

Men tell us that if they live a good moral life, that 
is, pay their debts, do by men as they should do, that 
this is all God can require of them and that if there is 
a Heaven they have as much right to it as those who 
trust in the merits of Jesus of Nazareth. 

Men who say this are either ignorant of the history 
of the human race, of its long agonies under the burden 
of sin, of its many attempts to have a conscience 


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cleansed of guilt, of its priesthoods and altars, its sac- 
rifices and prayers; or else they are self-deceived and 
mentally blinded by the God of this age. 

The nations that have not embraced Jesus Christ 
have steadly sunk lower and lower since His birth, 
nineteen hundred years ago. 

Only the people who have welcomed Him as Savior 
and have received the Life that He brings from God 
have shown improvement in the Sciences, Arts, Me- 
chanics, and Morals. 

Let no one deceive you. 

Education will not fit a man to stand right with God. 

Job shows a mental culture and knowledge that is 
not surpassed to-day by any of the great European 
Savants. 

David shows intellectual development that none of 
the great educators can surpass. 

Isaiah shows a chastity and fine discrimination along 
the highest intellectual lines that is not equalled by any 
writer that the nations have produced in the last thou- 
sand years. 

These writers all teach one great truth: “Man needs 
a Mediator.’’ 

To-day, scholarship if it is scholarship, knowledge if 
it is real knowledge, should lead the loftiest minds to 
the same goal, “Man needs a Mediator.” 

Humanity’s hopeless wail, sung in the minor of its 
uncomforted misery is heard in every generation; “How 
can man stand right with God, or how can he be pure 
that is born of woman?” Man needs a Mediator. 


CHAPTER 

THE 

SEVENTH 

THE INCARNATION 
OR 

THE HUMANITY AND DIETY OF JESUS 

The question of the Humanity and Deity of Jesus 
was contested more bitterly during the early days of 
Christianity than almost any other question. 

It has been the battle ground of speculators, meta- 
physicians, philosophers and theologians. 

Jesus puzzles them. 

To the natural mind he is a mystery; no man has ever 
produced such startling results in the human. 

He changed liars to truth-tellers, lazy men to work- 
ers, thieves to honest men, caused corrupt society to be- 
come clean, wholesome, and safe. 

In China to-day thousands of the Literati, Mandar- 
ins, principals of academies and colleges, political 
leaders, officers in the army and heads of the local gov- 
ernments are turning to Jesus Christ, and the miracle is, 
that it changes their lives, their hearts. 

There is something in that man Jesus that changes 
one’s nature the moment one takes Him as his Savior 
and crowns Him Lord. 


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What is it? 

The writer knows what it is by experience. 

Most of the readers likely know what it is. 

Now what is there about this man Jesus that makes 
him and every man who embraces Him so different? 

You may read Shakespeare and it does not change 
your nature. 

You may study the works of any man, and your na- 
ture not be changed by it, but you can not embrace 
Jesus as your Savior and not have a miracle performed 
in your spirit. 

Why is this? 

It lies in the fact that Jesus was different. 

He was not generated after the common laws of 
nature. 

John says, “The Word was made flesh and dwelt 
among us and we beheld His glory, full of grace and 
truth” (or reality) . 

The Incarnation is the most striking miracle of cre- 
ation, yet from Heaven’s point of view and man’s need 
it is inevitable. 


AN INCARNATION FACT 

Could the Son of God have been incarnate if His 
body had been conceived by natural generation? 

Would it have been possible for God to have come 
into a child born of natural generation, and dwell in the 
child and be incarnate ? 

We can not see how this is possible for Paul tells us 
that “All have sinned and fallen short of the glory of 


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God,” and that ‘‘death (spiritual) has entered into all 
men for that all sinned.” 

If Jesus had been born of natural generation and 
God had come into Him, He would have been a fallen 
spirit, a being subject to the Devil with God dwelling 
in him, that would not be Incarnation. 

This would utterly destroy the idea of a perfect In- 
carnation of God. 

The seed must be of divine origin instead of human. 

Man is subject to the Devil ; his seed only produces a 
fallen man. 

The Incarnate One could not be a subject of death 
nor of the Devil, so we believe that Jesus during His 
earthly walk was not a subject of death, neither was He 
a subject of Satan. 

Death had no dominion over Him until the sins of the 
world had been laid upon Him on the Cross, and not 
till then did He become a mortal being. 

Jesus was not immortal but He was a perfect human 
as Adam was a perfect human before the Fall. 

If God could have changed the nature of a child 
after birth so that He could be Incarnate in the child. 
He could as well have changed the nature of the whole 
human race in the same way. 

But to do this would have been an injustice to Satan, 
and an injustice to Himself, because the sin problem 
had not yet been settled, and the penalty of man’s 
transgression had not been paid. 

The Redeemer must be one over whom Satan had 
no legal claims nor authority, and this could only come 


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by a Redeemer being conceived and born as was the 
Babe of Bethlehem. 

The teaching of Incarnation is not out of harmony 
with human desire or tradition. 

It has been believed in by all tribes and peoples in 
some form. 

The Universal Man has craved Incarnation. 

This is proved by man’s drinking blood and by can- 
nibalism, by the naming of his kings after the titles of 
his deities, and by the universal reverence of the thing 
offered on the altar of the god. 

Incarnation is supernatural, but all peoples believe 
in the supernatural. 

Education can not eliminate man’s fundamental 
yearning and subconscious belief in the supernatural. 

Incarnation is God’s answer to the cry of the Uni- 
versal Man for a visit of Deity to the earth and for a 
union with Deity. 

Incarnation means that Deity has become united 
with humanity in an individual. 

The Incarnation is the only solution of the human 
problem. 

Since the Fall of Man, the human has steadily been 
sinking lower and lower intellectually, morally and 
spiritually, and the only hope is for Deity’s union with 
humanity to bring man back to his lost estate. 

The Incarnation should be desired by every sane 
man when he understands it, for it offers to humanity 
a hope, for without it man is hopeless. 

Every false religion that denies the Incarnation of 


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Jesus of Nazareth has attempted to provide a theory of 
universal Incarnation in order to stimulate to a higher 
moral and spiritual life. 

Theosophy tries to make us believe that all men have 
the nature of Deity. 

The same thing is held by practically all our modern 
liberal theological teachers and preachers, that the so- 
called “Spark of Divinity” dwells in all men, that the 
New Birth is simply the awakening, the blowing-into-a- 
flame, of this spark of Divinity. 

If man had a spark of Deity, or any part of Deity 
abiding in him, then man was already God Incarnate. 

We know that this theory is fallacious for humanity 
has experimentally proved it false. 

If we accept any of the Bible, we must accept it all. 

The entire New Testament contradicts it. 

The Incarnation of Jesus of Nazareth is no more 
difficult to believe nor to understand, than the creation 
of the first man or the birth of a child. 

If God is Almighty, He had power to beget a child 
in the womb of the Virgin Mary. 

If Jesus was Incarnate, Man and God can become 
united ; God can dwell in these human bodies of ours, 
God can impart His own life and nature to our spirits 
and we may have God’s life in these human bodies. 

If Jesus was Incarnated, then immortality is a fact. 

If we do receive Eternal Life for our spirits, then we 
have positive assurance that these bodies will become 
immortal at the return of the Lord Jesus. 

If Incarnation is a fact, Christianity is supernatural. 


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Every man who has been “born again” is an Incar- 
nation, and Christianity is a miracle. 

The believer is as much an Incarnation as was Jesus 
of Nazareth. 

We can not conceive of any man desiring to doubt 
the Incarnation, as it offers the only solution of life’s 
mystery; it gives the reason for man’s being; it makes 
life, with its burdens, sorrows, and grief which culmi- 
nate in death, tolerable ; it throws light upon this human 
problem that can come from no other source. 

Incarnation has been the craving of the Universal 
Man, and if Jesus of Nazareth was Incarnate, the 
universal cry has found its answer in Christianity. 

The Incarnation is the basic miracle of Christianity. 

It proves the Pre-existence of Christ and is the 
foundation and reason for all subsequent miraculous 
manifestations of divine power. 

Man’s condition demands an Incarnation, because 
he is spiritually dead and without approach to God. 

Incarnation of Deity with humanity will provide a 
Substitute of Deity and humanity united on such a 
ground that the Incarnate One can stand as man’s 
Mediator, being equal with God on the one hand and 
united with man on the other; He can bring the two 
together. 

Again being Deity and humanity united, He can 
assume the obligations of human treason and satisfy the 
claims of justice, and thereby bridge the chasm between 
God and man. 

Gen. 3 : 1 5 is God’s first promise of Incarnation ; it is 


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given in His conversation with Satan just after the Fall. 

“And I will put enmity between thee and the wo- 
man, and between thy seed and her seed; He shall 
bruise thy head and thou shalt bruise His heel.” 

Let us notice four remarkable promises or state- 
ments in this sentence. 

First, “I will put enmity between thee and the wo- 
man,” that is, there will be enmity between Satan and 
woman. 

This is proved by woman’s history ; she has been the 
special object of Satanic hatred and malice in all ages; 
she has borne the brunt of the Fall; she has been the 
burden bearer among all peoples; she has been bought 
and sold as common chattel. 

In India today she is not worth as much as a cow in 
the open market; only where Christianity has reached 
the hearts of a country has woman ever received any 
treatment that would lift her above the brute creation. 

She is unwanted at birth, the plaything of man’s 
passions, the neglected, the outcast, the sufferer, and in 
Christian countries she is the heir of our diseases and 
the victim of the divorce court. 

Doctors tell us that 95 per cent of all the hospital 
cases are of the women; 33 per cent of the married 
women of this country suffer on account of their hus- 
bands’ having sowed “wild oats,” and “sowing wild 
oats” means sowing our manhood for Satan’s reaping. 

“I will put enmity between thy seed and her seed:” 
Satan’s seed is the unregenerate human race; woman’s 
seed is Christ. 


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Christ was hunted from His babyhood by Satan’s 
seed until finally they nailed Him to the Cross, and 
from the Resurrection of Jesus until this day, the 
Church has been the subject of the bitterest persecutions 
and enmity of the world. 

Second, I want you to notice that remarkable term, 
“the seed of woman.’’ 

We know that woman has no seed, the seed is of the 
man, therefore what can this mean? 

It is a prophecy that woman shall give birth to a 
child independent of natural generation, that it shall be 
called the seed of woman. 

This is not a Hebraism for the term does not occur 
anywhere else throughout the entire Hebrew Scriptures. 

This is a direct statement of fact, that there shall be 
a seed of woman and that seed , Paul tells us is, “The 
Christ.’’ 

“And He shall bruise thy head, that is, the head of 
Satan.’’ 

In all Oriental languages, “bruising the head’’ means 
breaking the Lordship of a ruler. 

Satan has just come into his Dominion; he has the 
Dominion that God has given to man, and he is going to 
exercise this Dominion without any interruption until 
this wonderful Seed of woman comes, who is going to 
break his Lordship. 

This is a remarkable prophecy and how clearly it 
found fulfillment first in Jesus’ bitter persecution which 
finds its culmination in His death on the Cross, and 
then in the persecution of the Church which is the Body 


THE INCARNATION 1 29 

of Christ, and which is carrying out the will of Christ 
on the earth. 

The long ages of persecution of the Church by the 
seed of Satan is today merely a matter of history. 

“The heel,” is the Church in its earth walk. 

In the 20th verse of the same chapter, “The man 
called his wife’s name Eve because she was the mother 
of all living.’’ 

The word Eve in the Hebrew is Havvah, which 
literally means the living one, or the mother of the life- 
giver. 

Here God tells man that his wife shall be the mother 
of life, or the mother of “the life-giving One,’* our 
Christ. 


BORN OF A VIRGIN 

Isaiah 7:13, “And he said, Hear ye now, O House 
of David: Is it a small thing to weary men, that ye will 
weary my God also? Therefore the Lord Himself 
will give you a sign: behold the Virgin shall conceive, 
and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.’’ 

This child is going to be born of the House of 
David and “the Lord Himself will give you a sign.’’ 

Here he uses the name Adonai, God Himself will 
show you a miracle, a wonder, something out of the 
ordinary is going to take place, and we say, What is it? 

And he says, “the virgin’* as though he had marked 
her out, “shall conceive and bear a son, and his name 
shall be Immanuel.’’ 

It is a son that a Virgin is going to give birth to in a 


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supernatural way and she is going to call his name Im- 
manuel, God with us, or Incarnation. 

Take this in connection with Luke 1 : 3 1 -36, “And 
behold thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth 
a son, and shalt call his name Jesus. 

“He shall be great, and shall be called the son of the 
Most High: and the Lord God shall give unto Him 
the throne of His father David: and He shall reign 
over the house of Jacob forever; and of His Kingdom 
there shall be no end. 

“And Mary said unto the angel. How shall this be, 
seeing I know not a man ? 

And the angel answered and said unto her, The 
Holy Spirit shall come upon thee, and the power of the 
Most High shall overshadow thee: wherefore also the 
holy thing which is begotten shall be called the Son of 
God.” 

This child you notice is conceived of the Holy Spirit, 
it is a supernatural birth. 

The prophet Isaiah had looked down through the 
ages, and had marked Mary the daughter of Heli of 
the family of David. She was a cousin of Joseph who 
was also of the family of David; and so the prophet 
exclaimed “O house of David, is it a small thing that 
you weary me, I will show you a sign.” 

He is marking out this daughter of David, who is 
going to give birth to that wonderful being in a manger 
cradle in Bethlehem 750 years later. 

Jer. 31 :22, God declares, “A woman shall en- 


THE INCARNATION 131 

compass a man,” more literally, “A woman shall en- 
compass a man-child.” 

This Incarnate One could not be born of natural 
generation because man is a fallen being and his seed is 
subject to Satan. 

The seed must be of one who is not a subject of Sa- 
tan, and so this wonderful being must be conceived of 
the Holy Spirit, and the womb of the Virgin is to be 
simply the receptacle of that Holy thing, until the day it 
is brought forth. 

Isaiah 42:6 says, ‘‘I Jehovah have called thee in 
righteousness, and will hold thy hand and will form 
thee, and give thee for a Covenant of the people, for a 
light of the Gentiles.” 

Adam was created ; the rest of the human race were 
generated by natural processes, but this child that is go- 
ing to be born, is to be “formed” by a special act of 
Divine power. 

Paul speaks of His birth in the following words, 
Phil. 2: “Who existing in the form of God, counted 
not the being on an equality with God a thing to be 
grasped, but emptied Himself taking the form of a ser- 
vant, being made in the likeness of men; and being 
found in fashion as a man. He humbled Himself, be- 
coming obedient unto death, yea, the death of the 
Cross.” 

Notice these terms; He had existed always in the 
form of God, but now He empties Himself and takes 
the form of a bond servant, being made in the likeness 
of men and being found in fashion as a man. 


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All these suggest a separate and distinct operation of 
God, different from natural generation. 

Here is a being with whom God performs a miracle, 
first by taking him out of the Godhead or from the God- 
head in Heaven and placing Him in the womb of a 
Virgin to be unioned with flesh by a unique conception. 

Again Paul says, “Wherefore when he cometh into 
the world, he saith, Sacrifice thou wouldest not, but a 
body didst thou prepare for me.” 

God prepares a body, a special body, for this being 
called the Son of God. 

PRE-EXISTENCE OF CHRIST 

Psalm 107:20 declares, “He sendeth his word and 
healeth them and delivereth them from their de- 
struction;” and John says (1 :14) that “The Word, 
(the Eternal Logos, the expression of God,) became 
flesh and tabernacled with us.” 

Paul tells us in 1 Timothy 3:16 that God “was 
manifest in the flesh.” 

Romans 8:3 says that “God sending his own Son in 
the likeness of sinful flesh.” 

Galations 4:4-6, “When the fulness of times came 
God sent forth His Son born of a woman, born under 
the Law, that He might redeem them that are under 
the Law.” 

The Incarnation presupposes that this being who be- 
came Incarnate had a separate existence previous to His 
coming to the earth. 

Seventeen times in the Gospel of John, it is declared 


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133 


that Jesus was sent forth from the Father and came in- 
to the earth, and that He again left the earth and went 
unto the Father. 

The entire Gospel of John is based upon the fact 
that Jesus had a previous existence with the Father, and 
that while He was walking the earth He remembered 
His experiences in the other world, and spoke to the 
Father of these experiences, and also of when He 
would go back and take up again life with the Father: 
John 3:16; 8:42; 13:3; 16:28,30; 17:3-8. 

Micah 5:2 is a remarkable prophetic utterance of 
the pre-existence of Jesus, and His coming to earth: 
“Out of thee, Judah, shall one come forth unto me that 
is to be ruler in Israel, whose goings forth are from of 
old, from everlasting.” 

Here there is one going to be born of the family of 
Judah, to be a ruler in Israel, and His goings forth have 
been from of old, from everlasting. 

He has traveled up and down through the eternities, 
and has left His foot-prints on the ages. 

From these Scriptures, both prophecy and fulfil- 
ment, with the wonderful story of Jesus, the Incarnation 
seems a very simple and reasonable thing. 

We know the reason for Incarnation: Man is spirit- 
ually dead and a servant of Satan, and no man by 
natural generation could redeem him. 

Incarnation is absolutely necessary because humanity 
must be delivered by a human, and any human born of 
natural generation must be under Satan’s dominion. 


CHAPTER 

THE 

EIGHTH 


HOW COD CAN BE JUST 

Man is ever accusing God of injustice in dealing with 
the human race, and has declared that He had no right 
to create man in the face of the fact that He knew 
man would fail. 

Man questions God’s right to judge the human race 
and to execute sentence commensurate with the crime. 

Can God justify Himself in the face of these age-old 
accusations? 

Has God a right to send one man to Hell and anoth- 
er to Heaven? 

Has God, as Judge, a right to execute the sentence 
prescribed in Scripture against the Christ-rejector? 

The time has come when we must face this issue 
squarely. 

Theorizing and speculation will not satisfy us. 

The fact of a Hell we can not deny, and we are here 
and can not get rid of ourselves. 

We can not escape our responsibilities! 

We are eternal personalities and so must face an 
eternal situation. 


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135 


THE CASE 

We have found in other chapters that man is the 
reason for creation, that every step in this wonderful 
drama of the human has one basic fact which con- 
fronts us at every turn, that man was created to answer 
the yearning heart-hunger of the Great Father God. 

Second, we found that man was created for joy, 
for happiness, and for peace; that sin, sickness and 
death, hatred and revenge, had no place in the original 
plan of the Creator; that present conditions of society 
and of the world are abnormal. 

They never were a part of the original design ; they 
are the product of a Usurper. 

Man was designed to be the eternal associate of God 
Almighty and he was formed on those lines; when he 
first came forth from the womb of creation, he came 
complete with all his faculties and forces tuned to the 
concert pitch of God’s great heart-desire. 

HUMAN DOMINION 

God gave this wonderful being, this human, a place 
in His creation second only to Himself, with dominion 
as far-reaching as Heaven and with authority over 
every planet and star of the Universe. 

This man’s voice was like the voice of God to 
creation. 

Then man, this wonder man, did the thing un- 
thinkable. 


1 36 THE FATHER AND HIS FAMILY 


He committed a crime against eternity, against his 
unborn progeny, against creation, against the Creator. 

He committed high treason against the supreme court 
of the Universe, against the Government of God. 

He turned this love dream of God over into the 
hands of an enemy, giving his enemy the dominion that 
the great Father God had given him, and it was done 
on such a legal basis that God could not abrogate or 
annul the contract. 


SATAN’S REIGN 

Then began the destructive reign of Satan. 

The first thing Satan does is to change the nature of 
the whole animal creation, and blight and blast the 
vegetable kingdom, and breathe into man his own dia- 
bolical nature and disposition so that the heart-treasure 
of God is disfigured and man, God’s man, turns to be 
the enemy of his Father Creator. 

Language is inadequate to express the horror of the 
first hours of the fall of man: the convulsions in the 
animal kingdom, the horror of Adam’s awakening, the 
wail of distress and pain and fear that goes up from the 
whole creation. 

The stars even, Job tells us, were made unclean in 
the sight of God, the moon and the sun lose their 
beauty, and man, God’s crown of creation, has fallen 
from his lofty estate as an under-ruler of God to a 
cringing, servile, lying, fearful, demon-possessed 
human. 


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137 


The image that God had stamped upon him was 
slowly erased, and the image of his new father and 
master was penciled by Sin in its place. 

So complete was man’s subjugation to the Devil that 
he turned liar the first hour and a lie is the badge of 
Satanic dominion in the earth to-day. 


MAN MURDERS 

Adam’s first-born wets his hand in the blood of the 
second, and Adam in the excess of his grief names his 
first grandchild Enosh, which means mortal, death- 
doomed or Satan-ruled. 

Creation’s sorrows overflow. 

Man is a spiritual bankrupt ! 

He has lost his approach to God, he has forfeited 
his legal standing, he has become a citizen of a foreign 
King. 

He has renounced his allegiance to the great God of 
the Universe until he is described as “without life, 
without hope, and without God.’’ 

When Justice makes her demand, that man pay the 
penalty of his crime, man is unable to pay even the 
interest. 

The penalty of man’s transgression is Hell ! 

There is no mitigation of the sentence for the crime 
that man committed ; it was high treason, unpardonable 
sin, and this unpardonable sin of treason against God is 
the basic reason for the Incarnation and Substitutionary 
Sacrifice of God’s Beloved Son. 


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Man had no sooner fallen under the dominion of his 
enemy, then the great heart of God began to plan his 
redemption, and so at the very gates of Eden from 
which man had been driven, a sacrifice is slain and 
blood is spilt and a garment of Atonement is offered to 
man. 

Man has stripped himself and stands naked in the 
presence of Justice; and, as you remember from a pre- 
vious chapter, the word “Atonement” means a cover- 
ing, so God made a covering of skins and clothes for 
Adam, typical of Atonement for his soul which is 
found in the blood. 


GOD MUST REDEEM 

Man can not save himself; God must provide a 
Redeemer. 

The penalty of man’s treason must be met by God 
if man is saved, in other words, God must assume the 
liabilities of man’s awful treason. 

If He does not, God’s heart-treasure, the human, 
will be forever lost to Him, for man has lost his ap- 
proach to God, and even his legal right to pray. 

There is lying between man and God an impassable 
barrier, like the “great gulf fixed” spoken by Jesus, 
where there is no bridge. 

If God should assume the liabilities of man’s fall 
and pay man’s penalty independent of man, then God 
will have answered the criticism of man against His 
Justice; in other words, if God should send His Son 


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139 


out of His bosom and He should come down to the 
earth and become incarnate and God should lay upon 
Him the entire guilt of the human race and He should 
go to Hell and suffer in man’s stead so that no human 
would be obliged to suffer, then God would have vin- 
dicated Himself. 

BLOOD COVENANT 

And here perhaps is the most wonderful thing in the 
whole thought and plan of Redemption, that at the 
very beginning of man’s peopling of the earth God gave 
what we know to-day as the Blood Covenant and on 
the ground of this Blood Covenant, every man who 
entered into it has the promise of a perfect redemption 
from all his sins. 

Adam, himself, the father of all the crime and sin 
and heart aches and tears of the ages, had a right to 
this promise of a final redemption from his own guilt. 

Oh, the grace and mercy of our God ! 

The tokens of this Covenant are extant even to this 
day among all primitive peoples. 

We find it in Africa practiced to-day among all the 
tribes; we find it among the Bedouins and Arabs; we 
find it in Borneo and Tibet, China and Japan; we find 
it in the Scandinavian peoples and among all' the 
European nations, in Albania, Montenegro, Servia; 
among the Syrians, Egyptians and the Abyssinians ; we 
find relics of it among the North American Indians, 
down through old Mexico, through Central America 
across the Isthmus and into South America. 


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In fact, the whole human race has carried traces of 
it down with them through all these ages, thus proving 
that God at the beginning made an indissoluble Cove- 
nant between Himself and the fallen human race, that 
in the shedding of blood of an innocent animal He 
would eventually give man a perfect Redemption for all 
his sins, through the blood of His Son. 

GOD ACQUITTED 

God stands acquitted before the tribunal of universal 
human consciousness in that He did not leave man 
after his treason without means of salvation. 

I want to call your attention to a most remarkable 
fact in God’s dealing with the human race. 

In the whole plan of Redemption we notice God’s 
justice. 

First in regard to man, God does not overlook sin 
nor transgression, but every sin is marked. 

Second, God is just to the Devil ; nowhere does God 
take advantage of the Devil, but God’s eternal justice 
to frail man and to mighty Satan is manifest. 

Not only is He just to man and to the Devil, but He 
is just to Himself. 

WHAT THE CASE DEMANDS 

Man’s penalty for treason must be met. 

That penalty is spiritual death and incarceration in 
Hell. 


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141 


Some one must go there and pay man’s penalty, for 
there is not a man who can represent the human race 
before God, neither is there a man that can stand for 
himself before God, for the whole human race is under 
indictment. 

VINDICATION OF GOD FOR CREATION 

God had a right to create just as a good man and a 
good woman have a right to give life to a child. 

Adam was the master of himself, of creation, of 
Satan. 

Man did not have to yield unless he chose to yield. 

Man was no “missing link” but He was God’a 
crown of creation standing in the full light of perfect 
knowledge and dominion. 

Satan was his servant and subject. 

There is only one reason why Adam could have 
sinned. 

His wife, Eve, had yielded to the temptation, had 
fallen. 

Adam sees the great gulf between himself and hi? 
precious wife. 


THE WOMAN 

We are not told that Satan visited Adam or said 
one word to him ; all we have is the record of the con- 
versation between Adam and his wife. 

There was no ground by which Adam could excuse 
himself whatever. 

His sin was deliberate. 


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It was in the face of facts. 

He knew what he did and what effect it would have 
upon creation, upon his own children, upon his Creator 
God, yet for the sake of the woman, in order to regain 
her companionship, Adam deliberately committed high 
treason against God. 

What a solemn warning it is to womanhood ! 

We know that to-day no nation rises above its 
womanhood, that few men are purer than their wife or 
mother. 

We know that the motherhood and the wifehood of 
the land give us our homes. 

Men may turn drunkards and debauchers and de- 
fame their marriage vows, but if the wives and mothers 
stand true, the home remains inviolate and children 
grow up clean, pure and reverent ; but where the mother 
is a careless woman, few of her children ever stand the 
test of the world’s temptations. 

ASSUMES LIABILITIES 

God must now assume the liabilities of man’s trans- 
gression. 

He must in some way redeem man from Satanic do- 
minion, give back to him the forfeited life, change his 
nature again into harmony with His own, and defeat 
the Devil. 

Man has lost the privilege of Sonship to God. 

This Sonship privilege must be restored on legal 
grounds. 


HOW CAN GOD BE JUST 143 

God can not ignore the fact of man’s hideous 
transgression. 

That transgression must be punished and if man is 
restored to God, it must be upon grounds that will not 
pauperize man nor rob him of his self respect, but it 
must be upon legal grounds that will perfectly justify 
man in the sight of God, and give him as good a stand- 
ing as though he never had sinned. 

god’s JUSTICE 

This work to restore man must not take advantage 
of Satan because God is stronger than he, but the plan 
that is enacted must be upon absolutely legal grounds to 
man and to the Devil and to God Almighty. 

Man must not only be delivered from the dominion 
of Satan but there must be placed in his hands a weapon 
of defence and offence. 

He must be given authority by which he can meet 
the Devil and conquer him in honorable combat; he 
must be able to defend himself and his children from 
the assaults of his old Enemy. 

A resurrection of his physical body must be guaran- 
teed and after the resurrection, immortality, because 
man at the beginning had a perfect human body that 
had the power of rejuvenation. 

He must be given now an eternal body over which 
death can have no dominion or authority. 

Again, there must be a restoration of earth to the 
Edenic glory and beauty, and put on such a basis that 
there can never be a recurrence of Satanic dominion. 


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Lastly, there must be legal grounds on which God 
can justly judge the human race and compel them to 
pay the penalty of sin if they reject His sin-substitute. 


WHAT GOD MUST DO 

The Redemption of man must emanate from God. 

Man is a broken helpless slave without resources, 
and in the hands of an Enemy who rules him without 
mercy and who has the authority to cast him into Hell. 

The first thing that God must do is to provide a Re- 
deemer. 

This Redeemer must be adequate first to meet every 
demand of justice ; and second, every need of man ; and 
third. He must be big enough to conquer Satan and an- 
nihilate death, and bring life and immortality to the 
broken, bondaged human. 

Secondly, this Redeemer must become incarnate, 
that is, He as a spiritual Being must take on a human 
body; this human body can not be a mortal body as 
ours; if it were, He would be a subject of Satan, but 
He must have a body patterned after the pure body of 
the first man, Adam. 

He must be conceived and born in such a manner 
that He will not be a subject of Satan, but have the 
same dominion and authority that the first man, Adam, 
had before his treason. 

Third, He must be able to be a substitute for man. 

He must pass the examinations and requirements 
that Justice demands for a substitute. 


HOW CAN GOD BE JUST 145 

He must be capable of suffering all that man would 
have suffered, that is, man as a whole. 

He must meet the demands of Justice and in order to 
do this, He must go to Hell. 

He must remain there under judgment till every de- 
mand, every legal requirement of justice has been fully 
satisfied against the human race. 

He must stay there and suffer till God can legally 
acquit every human being that takes Him as Savior, and 
every human being who has trusted in the old Blood 
Covenant from the beginning. 

This Redeemer can not be an angel, nor a disem- 
bodied spirit; he can not be any special being created 
for the occasion ; it must be God, Himself. 

DEITY SUFFERS FOR MAN 

Deity must suffer for humanity, and the only way 
this can be done is for God’s Beloved Son to come out 
of God’s bosom, lay aside His glory and majesty that 
He has enjoyed thru eternity at the Father’s right hand, 
and come down here to earth and assume the physical 
body of a human. 

Then God must take our sin nature, that hideous 
monstrous thing, spiritual death, and lay it upon the 
Spirit of this Holy Eternal Son, and the Son must go 
under judgment, and the wrath and indignation of 
Justice against sin and treason must be meted out to 
Him. 

He must suffer as much agony as the entire human 
race would suffer in endless Eternity. 


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He must pay the wages of sin; “it is demanded” of 
the human and “He becomes answerable.” 

After He has paid the penalty, after He has suffered 
till the claims of Justice are fully met, then Life Eternal 
must be given to His Spirit, His nature must be changed 
until the prophecy in the Psalms, “Thou art My Son, 
this day have I begotten Thee,” is fulfilled. 

BORN OUT OF DEATH 

He must be born out of spiritual death into life, 
that Paul may say that “He is the first-born from the 
dead, the Head of the Church.” 

Then when He is Made Alive in that dark domain 
of Hell, He must meet Satan, the strong man, and con- 
quer him, binding him in his own house and taking away 
the arms in which he is trusting, and Paul graphically 
puts it, “He must put off from Himself the principalities 
and the powers,” and make a show of them openly, 
triumphing over them.” 

This is a vivid picture of Jesus in Hell with all the 
hosts of demons upon Him seeking to keep Him a pris- 
oner in their dark kingdom. 

Jesus arises in His new, omnipotent strength, hurls 
back the hosts of darkness and leaves Satan paralyzed, 
as Paul tells us in Hebrews 2:14, stripped of his 
authority, defeated before his own mighty army. 

Jesus possesses “The gate of His Enemy.” He has 
“The keys of Death and Hell.” 

Jesus ascends up out of the darkness of Hell to earth 
and enters into His body which is now filled with light 


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147 


and immortality and which is glorified and fitted to last 
thru the ages of ages as the Head of the Church, and as 
a sample of the Resurrection. 

JESUS THE CONQUEROR 

No wonder the angel said, “Ye seek Jesus who was 
crucified? Come see the place where the Lord lay.” 

He died as Jesus our Substitute, the Lamb that bear- 
eth away the sin of the world. 

He arose as Lord, as Master of death, of Hell and 
of the grave. 

Hear Him cry to John, “I was dead, and behold, I 
am alive for evermore, and I have the keys of death 
and of Hades.” 

Matchless, mighty Christ had gone into the strong 
room, the very citadel of Hell, into the crown room of 
the Black Prince and Ruler of death; He had con- 
quered him in honorable combat; He had taken from 
him his authority, his dominion ; He brings it back and 
offers it to fallen man thru His matchless name and 
grace. 

O Christ, what agonies, what wounds for man hast 
Thou borne. 

Our feeble minds can not grasp the meaning of these 
awful words, but our spirits know, Great Christ, that 
Thou hast redeemed us from death and from Hell. 

CAN CHRIST MEET THE DEMANDS 

Will the thirty-three years of Christ’s humiliation as 
He walked among men satisfy the claims of Justice and 
meet humanity’s need? 


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You answer to the contrary. 

Will the agony in the Garden of Gethsemane when 
He sweat great drops of blood, agony so intense that 
angels were obliged to come and strengthen Him before 
He could go on the Cross? 

Would that agony pay the penalty of human 
treason? 

Would the physical suffering of death on the Cross 
meet the penalty and set man right with God? 

Was it a spiritual or a physical sin? 

If the physical death of Jesus paid the penalty of 
man’s transgression, then sin is but a physical fact. 

If Jesus’ physical death could pay the penalty of sin 
as some contend, then why is it necessary that a Chris- 
tian die? 

If a Christian die physically, does he not pay the 
penalty of his own sin? 

And, if physical death is the penalty for sin, then 
why do not the whole human race pay their own 
penalty and save themselves, for all die? 

But we hold that the physical death of Jesus did not 
touch the sin issue at all ; it was only a means to an end, 
and the real suffering of Jesus, the Substitute, must be 
spiritual as well as physical. 

Can God demand spiritual suffering from the human 
race, that is, suffering in Hell, if His Substitute only 
suffered physically? 

Can God justly send the human race to Hell, and 
finally into the Lake of Fire, the great Federal Prison 
pf Eternity, unless His Son went to Hell and suffered 


HOW CAN GOD BE JUST 149 

there all that God could expect or exact legally from 
the human race? 

But some one will say that annihilation is the penalty 
of sin, and that the sinner when he dies is annihilated. 

Well, if this be true, and if Jesus is our sin Substi- 
tute, then He must be annihilated, and, as one has said 
in this connection, Jesus must have been annihilated, 
then who was it that was raised from the dead? 

There would be a break in the continuity of person- 
ality, and the one who was annihilated could not have 
been raised from the dead for he had ceased to be, and 
another being must have been created who appeared 
as the Christ. 

This argument falls by its own folly. 

This Redeemer must experience death for every 
man, so that every man may have a legal right to eternal 
life and Sonship with God. 

If he goes to Hell and suffers for the human race, 
then God stands vindicated and man is silent; man no 
longer has a case against God for He has sent out of 
Heaven His own Son who has come to the earth and 
has paid the penalty of man’s guilt without asking man 
to have any part in the awful transaction. 

If He did go to Hell and pay the penalty of man’s 
transgression, then man is legally acquitted, God is vin- 
dicated, Satan is defeated. 

If He did not go to Hell and suffer, God can not 
send any man to Hell who rejects Him as a Savior, but 
if He did go to Hell, then God has not only a legal 
right to send every man to Hell that rejects Him, but 


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God must send them there in order to be just towards 
Jesus the Substitute. 

If God can save one human being who rejects Jesus 
Christ as a personal Savior, then God could save the 
whole human race because there is no distinction, all are 
spiritually dead, all are subjects of Satan, and if one 
could have been saved then the whole world could have 
been saved; and if the whole could have been saved 
apart from Christ, then God’s sending Jesus to Hell is 
the most colossal crime ever committed in the Universe. 

Man’s transgression is but child’s play in comparison 
with the unspeakable crime of sending the Holy inno- 
cent Child of God into Hell’s dark recesses as our sin 
Substitute, if it were not necessary. 

If this be true, then every man who rejects Jesus, 
must legally go to Hell regardless of how God may feel 
toward him. 

And every man that accepts Jesus must legally go to 
Heaven. 

This gives God a right to sit as Judge at the Great 
White Throne and seal man’s lips forever. 


CHAPTER 

THE 

NINTH 

THE SIN BEARER 

God began to speak through the Prophets as soon 
as man fell, promising that a Redeemer should come 
who would break the dominion of Satan and restore to 
man his lost dominion and standing. 

In Isaiah 7 : 1 4, we get a declarative statement of the 
Incarnation. 

The first step in man’s Redemption must be the In- 
carnation of Deity, or, to use our own language, the 
union of God and man. 

“Therefore the Lord Himself shall give you a sign; 
behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a Son, and 
shall call his name Immanuel.” 

It is a striking sentence, “The Lord Himself.” 

The Hebrew word “Adonai” means literally, the 
Ruling One, the God of Miracles, of wonders, of 
Majesty; and notice he says, “The Lord Himself,” 
emphasizing His might and power, “shall give you 
a sign,” or miraculous work and wonder for your 
special benefit. 


152 THE FATHER AND HIS FAMILY 

“Behold a Virgin,” as though looking down through 
the ages. He marks her out. 

She is to be a daughter of the House of David, and 
she shall conceive and bear a Son. 

Mark you, it is to be a Virgin, a woman who has 
never known a man, that shall bear a Son, and His 
name, and here we are thrilled, shall be called Imman- 
uel, that is, God with us, or more literally, Incarnation. 

This Child shall be called Immanuel or Incarnation, 
wonderful name. 

Here God suggests the union of Deity and humanity. 

Notice then first, that He is to be of the House of 
David; second, “the Lord Himself shall give a sign,” 
something supernatural, a miracle is going to be per- 
formed ; third, the Virgin is the God-assigned one ; and 
fourth, He is to be a Son, a male ; and fifth. His name is» 
Incarnation. 

Isaiah 9:6-7, “For unto us a Child is born, unto us 
a Son is given; the Government shall be upon His 
shoulders, and His name shall be called Wonderful 
Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of 
Peace.” 

Here the Prophet says, “Unto us,” a national Child, 
“A Son is given,” Israel’s Son, a national Son. 

“The Government shall be upon His shoulders,” He 
shall come as a Ruler to have authority and dominion. 

Had we space I would like to show you that from 
Genesis 3, through the entire prophetical utterances con- 
cerning the Coming One, there is always a double 
prophecy, one we might call the bass in the great 


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oratorio of Redemption, the Lordship and dominion of 
the Coming One. 

He is going to break the Dominion of Satan ; He is 
going to set men free. 

He is going to bruise the head of the Serpent; He is 
going to grind him under His heel. 

But His name here is perhaps the most striking, 
“Wonderful Counselor,” the great Lawyer of God’s 
Family; second, “Mighty God,” no Jewish mother 
wiould have dared to call her child that, for it would 
have been the rankest blasphemy and she and her child 
both would have been subject to stoning; third, “Ever- 
lasting Father,” indicating that this wonderful Being 
is going to be a Revealer of the Father, which we find 
Him in the Gospel of John; and lastly, He is called by 
that beautiful name, “Prince of Peace.” 

Turn with me to the Gospel of Luke and read the 
sweetest story ever penned, of the conception of the 
Son of God. 

Luke 1 :26-38, “Now in the sixth month the angel 
Gabriel was sent from God unto a city of Galilee, 
named Nazareth, to a virgin betrothed to a man whose 
name was Joseph, of the house of David; and the vir- 
gin’s name was Mary. 

“And he came in unto her, and said, Hail, thou that 
art highly favored, the Lord is with thee. 

“But she was greatly troubled at the saying, and cast 
in her mind what manner of salutation this might be. 

“And the angel said unto her. Fear not, Mary; for 
thou hast found favor with God. 


154 THE FATHER AND HIS FAMILY 


“And behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and 
bring forth a son, and shalt call his name Jesus. 

“He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of 
the Most High : and the Lord God shall give unto him 
the throne of His father David: and He shall reign 
over the house of Jacob for ever; and of His kingdom 
there shall be no end. 

“And Mary said unto the angel. How shall this be, 
seeing I know not a man? 

“And the angel answered and said unto her, The 
Holy Spirit shall come upon thee, and the power of the 
Most High shall overshadow thee: wherefore also the 
holy thing which is begotten shall be called the Son of 
God. 

“And behold, Elizabeth thy kinswoman, she also 
hath conceived a son in her old age ; and this is the sixth 
month with her that was called barren. 

“For no word from God shall be void of power. 

“And Mary said, Behold, the handmaid of the 
Lord; be it unto me according to thy word. 

“And the angel departed from her.” 

John 1:14, “And the Word became flesh, and 
dwelt among us (and we beheld His glory, glory as of 
the only begotten from the Father), full of grace and 
truth.” 

Here we have the story told of the union of Deity 
and humanity, a child conceived in a virgin’s womb by 
supernatural manifestations of the great God who spoke 
creation into being and then made man for His own 
glory, man who by apostasy and awful sin has necessi- 


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155 


tated a second miracle greater than the miracle of crea- 
tion to encompass his Redemption from the power and 
guilt of his own transgressions. 

In Matthew 3:17, when Jesus is baptized, we hear 
the Father say, “This is My beloved Son, in whom I 
am well pleased.” 

By this we know that Jesus perfectly pleased the 
Father during His earth walk, and all through the 
Gospel of John we discover Him as the Father-pleaser. 

He says of himself, I came not to do my own will, 
but the will of Him that sent Me; I seek not my own 
will but the will of Him whose work I came to 
accomplish. 

And again, “I do always the things that are pleasing 
to Him,” revealing to us a sample Son, seeking only 
His Father’s will, the first man since the Fall that made 
it His business to do the will of the great Father God. 

In Luke 4, we have the graphic picture of the temp- 
tation of Jesus. 

Here He faces Satan as Adam faced him in the 
Garden of Eden, but unlike the first Man He conquers 
Satan. 

He faces the long forty days of hunger ; He faces the 
desire to reach the human race and save it by another 
road than the Cross and Hell, but He puts it far 
from Him. 

He turns with joy to walk with His Mighty Father, 
and in Isaiah we come to the great picture of the Sub- 
stitutionary sacrifice of the Lamb of God. 


156 THE FATHER AND HIS FAMILY 


This picture that I want to give you is the divine 
side of the Crucifixion. 

Turn for a few moments and read the story of the 
Crucifixion from Mark or Luke, and see that strange 
Galilean arrested first in the Garden of Gethsemane, 
taken down to the Hall of Caiaphas the High Priest, 
see Him blindfolded and spit upon, insulted and struck 
in the presence of the very High Priest of God, and 
then the long, long, cold, weary hours till He is taken 
before Pilate, and then eventually to Herod to be 
mocked and jeered, to be clothed with the mock gar- 
ment of kingly authority and with a mock crown of 
thorns upon His brow, and the mock badge of kingly 
authority placed within His hand, and then the long 
weary march back to Pilate, and the mock trial, pro- 
ceeding with bitterness and jealousy. He standing calm 
and quiet with no part in this unnatural scene, except 
that of the innocent victim of jealousy and hate. 

We see Him scourged, His back laid open by the 
awful Roman lictor. 

Blood flows and flesh is torn as the cruel blows fall 
mercilessly upon His bared back. 

Then His clothes are thrown roughly about Him and 
He is started out for Golgotha, staggering beneath His 
own Cross. We see Him fall under its weight, and 
Simon of Cyrene is compelled to bear it, and then we 
see Him staggering blindly up the mountain side sur- 
rounded by the soldiery and finally reach the crest. 
A circle is formed. He is laid roughly down upon the 
Cross on His back, and the Roman soldiers with cruel 


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157 


hate drive the spikes into His hands and feet; then He 
is lifted up naked and the Cross is dropt into the socket 
in the rock. 

Jesus the Nazarene is crucified! 

We watch the mob as it surges backward and for- 
ward about the Cross. 

We hear the High Priest hurling his bitter taunts in 
the face of the suffering Galilean. 

We hear the mob in their bitter denunciations, led on 
by their great Priesthood. 

It was a sight not for angels nor for men but for 
demons only. 

But the vision I want you to have to-day is not of the 
physical suffering of Jesus, not what man has done, that 
is only a means to an end, but come behind the scenes 
and see the agony of the Son of God, and see Him 
smitten by His own God, His own Father. 

Peter tells us on the day of Pentecost that He was 
delivered up by the determinate counsel and the fore- 
knowledge of God. 

Now I think we can understand this wonderful 
prophecy, “Surely He hath borne our griefs and car- 
ried our sorrows, yet we did esteem Him stricken, smit- 
ten of God and afflicted.” 

In the Four Gospels we see Him only stricken of 
man, but the Prophet sees Him as He hangs there, the 
outcast of men, “stricken, smitten of God and 
afflicted.” 

God is dealing with our sin Substitute ; He is dealing 
not with His body but with His soul and spirit. 


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“He was wounded for our transgressions, He was 
bruised for our iniquities, the chastisement of our peace 
was upon Him, and with His stripes healing is granted 
unto us; All we like sheep have gone astray, we have 
turned every one to his own way, and Jehovah made to 
strike upon Him the iniquity of us all.” 

Here we see God taking our sin nature, hideous 
spiritual death, and making it to strike, as the Prophet 
says, upon His soul. 

“Him that knew no sin,” God is now making to be 
sin. 

He who has basked in the presence of His Father, 
He who has so charmed the very heart of His Great 
Father God as a Man until He cried out, “This is My 
Beloved Son in whom I am well-pleased,’’ is now man’s 
sin Substitute. 

He has taken Man’s place and the whole human 
race is now represented in Him, and as He hangs there 
under judgment on the accursed tree, God takes your 
sin and mine, yes, the sin of the whole world, and lets 
it fall upon the sensitive spirit until the sin of a world 
has entered into His very Being and He has become the 
outcast from Heaven, until God turns His back upon 
Him, and He cries out, “My God, My God, why hast 
Thou forsaken Me.” 

“By oppression and judgment, He was taken 
away” or literally, “it was demanded and He became 
answerable.” 

“And as for His generation, who among them con- 
sidered that He was cut off from the land of the living 


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for the transgression of my people to whom the stroke 
was due.” 

Literally, He was cut out of the realm of life and 
went into the realm of death for His people to whom 
the stroke was due. 

‘‘And they made His grave with the wicked and 
with a rich man in His death.” 

This word ‘‘death” is in the plural in the original. 

It is a very remarkable fact that this is the only time 
that the word ‘‘deaths” is used in the entire Old Testa- 
ment Scriptures except when it speaks of Satan being 
cast out of Heaven, that he ‘‘died the deaths.” 

It is used here because the Prophet saw that our sin 
Substitute when He went on the Cross died spiritually 
as well as physically, so it says ‘‘in His deaths.” 

‘‘Yet it pleased Jehovah to bruise Him; He hath put 
Him to grief; when thou shalt make His soul an offer- 
ing for sin He shall see the travail of His soul 

and shall be satisfied.” 

Notice that it is not the physical suffering of Jesus, 
but His soul travail ; God has made His soul an offer- 
ing for sin. 

God has laid upon Him the iniquity of us all, and 
God is watching the travail, the deep agony, the birth- 
throes of the Son of God. 

It is out of this birth-travail that the church is born. 

‘‘And on the ground of this shall My Righteous 
Servant legally acquit many, because He shall bear 
their transgressions.” 


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This picture of the fierce sufferings of Jesus finds a 
parallel in the 88th Psalm. 

Here we have a view of Christ in Hell actually 
bearing our sins, suffering in our stead, cast off by God, 
in utter despair, suffering what we should have suffered. 

This 88th Psalm is the story of a righteous man in 
Hell, undergoing most hideous pain and suffering. 

It cannot belong to any other individual than our 
sin Substitute, the whole language is Messianic. 

“For my soul is full of troubles, and my life draweth 
nigh unto Sheol. 

“I am reckoned with them that go down into the pit; 
I am as a man that hath no help, cast off among the 
dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou 
rememberest no more, and they are cut off from tby 
hand. 

“Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in dark places, 
in the deeps. 

“Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast 
afflicted me with all thy waves. 

“Thou hast put mine acquaintance far from me; 
thou hast made me an abomination unto them: I am 
shut up, and I cannot come forth. 

“Mine eye wasteth away by reason of affliction: I 
have daily called upon thee, O Jehovah; I have spread 
forth my hands unto thee. 

“Wilt thou show wonders to the dead? 

“Shall they that are deceased arise and praise thee? 

“Shall thy loving kindness be declared in the 
grave? Or thy faithfulness in Destruction? 


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Shall thy wonders be known in the dark. And 
thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness? 

“But unto thee, O Jehovah, have I cried; and in the 
morning shall my prayer come before thee. 

“Jehovah, why castest thou off my soul? 

“Why hidest thou thy face from me? 

“Iam afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: 
While I suffer thy terrors I am distracted. 

“Thy fierce wrath is gone over me; thy terrors have 
cut me off. 

“They came round me like water all the day long; 
they compassed me about together.” 

In the third verse he says, “My life draweth nigh 
unto Sheol,” unto Hell, the place of torment, “I am 
reckoned with them that go down into the pit,” cast off 
among the dead like the slain that lie in the grave, 
whom thou rememberest no more; thou ‘hast laid in the 
lowest pit, in dark places, in the deeps. 

Here He has gone to the very depths of agony i\ 
suffering for man ; He is laid in the lowest Hell. 

“Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, thou hast afflicted 
me with all thy waves.” 

None but he ever had all the wrath of God laid up- 
on him. 

He is the only one whom this prophecy could mean. 

“I am shut up, I cannot come forth,” and then He 
cries. “Wilt thou show wonders to the dead? Shall 
they that are deceased rise and praise thee? Shall thy 
loving kindness be declared in the grave ? Or thy faith- 
fulness in destruction? Shall Thy wonders be known 


1 62 THE FATHER AND HIS FAMILY 


in the dark, and thy righteousness in the land of forget- 
fulness?” 

Here the four outstanding attributes of Deity are 
mentioned : lovingkindness, faithfulness, omnipotence 
and righteousness. 

These are the four prominent attributes of the 
Throne of God, and the writer says, ‘‘Shall these four 
great attributes of God be shown in the depths of 
Hell.” 

What can he mean? 

Just this, that when Jesus Christ, our sin Substitute, 
went down into Hell, there He proclaimed God’s lov- 
ing kindness to the wicked human race. 

There demons and men were compelled to say, “Be- 
hold, how God must love man to send His own Son out 
of His own bosom into this dread place to suffer on 
our account.” 

Man had challenged God’s love down there in 
Hades. 

He challenged it in the Garden of Eden. 

He has at every epoch of history. 

But now God puts it beyond a doubt, for while we 
were yet sinners, Christ goes down into the dark regions 
of the damned to suffer in our stead. 

The eternal faithfulness of God is shown in Hell; 
God has been faithful to His promises. 

If God was ever going to fail in any place, He surely 
would have failed here when it came to the issue of 
sending His Son down there for our sins, but He kept 
His Covenant with Abraham. 


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He kept His word with David, and down in Hell 
the heralds of the damned were obliged to cry out, “Be- 
hold the lovingkindness, and the eternal faithfulness of 
the Great God of the Universe.” 

His omnipotence. His awful power, power that 
could speak the Universe into being with a word, that 
omnipotence is declared in Hell when Jesus Christ, 
after having suffered the demands of Justice, rises in 
His might and conquers Satan and leaves him para- 
lyzed and broken on the very pavements of Hell, in the 
presence of a defeated and fear-stricken host. 

“And thy righteousness in the land of forgetful- 
ness?” 

God’s righteousness, the foundation of His Throne, 
who can ever challenge it again? 

He that denuded Heaven of its light and glory and 
joy. He that insisted that His Son not only go on the 
Cross but into Hell itself to pay the penalty of Man’s 
high treason. He that is omnipotent but would not take 
advantage ot Satan after he had won his conquest over 
man, although He could have by one word wiped 
the human race from the earth, yet suffered them to go 
on until He could assume the liabilities of their awful 
guilt and pay man’s penalty. 

God was just to man, and He was just to Satan. 

God would not ask man to stand in His presence 
through Eternity until every whit of guilt and every 
charge had been wiped off the books and man stood as 
clean and as free as though sin had never pierced his 
soul. 


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God would not pardon man until an adequate sacri- 
fice had been made. 

And so in Hell Jesus Christ proclaims the love of 
God, the wonder-working omnipotence of God and the 
eternal righteousness of God and when the great 
White Throne Judgment comes and the hosts of de- 
mons and men come to stand before that great Tribu- 
nal, those who were then in Hell will come and in the 
presence of that awful multitude will answer to God’s 
justice that was declared in Hell. 

Every demon, every human, knows that God was 
just. 

There is no doubt but in the Archives of Hell a rec- 
ord has been kept of the visit of the Eternal Son when 
He went there as man’s Substitute under judgment, 
under the awful burden of the guilt of man’s sin. 

What He suffered, none of us can know. 

Holy, as God was Holy, pure, as God was pure, 
yet for you and for me that precious Being sank to the 
lowest depths of Hell. 

“Thou hast laid me in the lowest depths, all thy 
wrath is upon me;’’ He cries in His bitterness, “Jeho- 
vah, why casteth thou off my soul, why hidest thou thy 
face from me?’’ 

We see Him hanging on the Cross, He cries, “My 
God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?’’ 

Forsaken by the Father, forsaken by the angels who 
had ministered unto Him through Eternity, He feels 
the waves sweep around the Cross and the darkness of 


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the lower depths come up and sweep over the earth and 
obscure the light of the sun. 

Oh, that awful hour when the cry of the Substitute 
rent the sky ! 

I stood one night, on Calv’ry’s height, 

Where hung the Son of man ; 

I raised mine eyes to starry skies, 

Mused on redemption’s plan. 

I saw the fall, sin’s bitter thrall, 

Where plunged the human race! 

I heard the moan that thrilled the throne. 

And moved the God of grace. 

I saw the Son, the Spotless One, 

Come from His Father’s side; 

In form prepared, our nature shared, 

And for the sinner died. 

I saw the tree. He died for me, 

Forsaken by His God; 

I saw the blood, the crimson flood 
Dripping upon the sod. 

I heard His cry, that pierced the sky, 

The sad wail of the lost; 

My God, my God, He’s kissed the rod. 

And paid sin’s awful cost. 

I heard the wail, as men turned pale, 

The earth reeled at the stroke. 

Sin’s work was done, it slew the Son, 

Its billows o’er Him broke. 


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His soul travail doth now prevail, 

Man’s penalty is borne; 

Hell feels His might, yields Him the light 
On resurrection morn. 

I heard Him say: “Go, tell to-day. 

The good news to the race; 

By God’s decree, all men are free, 

Saved by the Father’s grace.’’ 

In Matthew 1 2 :40 Jesus declares that as Jonah was 
three days and three nights in the fish’s belly, so shall 
the Son of man be three days and three nights in the 
heart of the earth. 

We have found in another chapter that Hell is lo- 
cated in the heart of the earth and Jesus declares that 
He will be there three days and three nights. 

In Peter’s sermon on the day of Pentecost, that 
sample sermon of the church, this awful truth of the 
substitutionary sacrifice of Jesus is clearly set forth. 

“Ye men of Israel, hear these words: Jesus of 
Nazareth, a man approved of God unto you by mighty 
works and wonders and signs which God did by Him in 
the midst of you, even as ye yourselves know; Him, be- 
ing delivered up by the determinate counsel and fore- 
knowledge of God, ye by the hand of lawless men did 
crucify and slay : Whom God raised up, having loosed 
the pangs of death : because it was not possible that He 
should be holden of it. 

“For David said concerning him, Because 


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thou wilt not leave my soul unto Hades, neither wilt 
thou give thy Holy One to see corruption 

“Brethren, I may say unto you freely of the patri- 
arch David, that he both died and was buried, and his 
tomb is with us unto this day. 

“Being therefore a prophet, and knowing that God 
had sworn with an oath to him, that of the fruit of his 
loins he would set one upon his throne; he foreseeing 
this spake of the resurrection of the Christ, that neither 
was he left unto Hades, nor did his flesh see corruption. 

“This Jesus did God raise up, whereof we are all 
witnesses. 

“Being therefore by the right hand of God exalted, 
and having received of the Father the promise of the 
Holy Spirit, he hath poured forth this, which ye see and 
hear.’* 

“Whom God raised up having loosed the pangs of 
death because it was not possible for Him to be holden 
of it.’’ 

Notice this, that when Jesus was raised from the 
dead He was loosed out of birth pangs. 

The Greek word for birth pangs literally means birth 
throes, birth agonies, which is stronger than travail or 
our English word “pangs”. 

And when Jesus was raised from the dead. He was 
loosed out of that kind of suffering, agony beyond ex- 
pression. 

The 27th verse, “Because thou wilt not leave my 
soul unto Hades, neither shall thy Holy one see cor- 
ruption, ’’notice that His soul was not going to be left 


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in Hades, neither was his body to suffer corruption in 
Joseph’s tomb. 

Peter waxes eloquent and says, “He foreseeing this 
spake of the resurrection of Christ, that neither was He 
left in Hades, nor did His flesh see corruption.’’ 

Peter believed that Jesus went to Hell and that dur- 
ing the three days and three nights, He suffered the un- 
speakable agonies of torture, and that when He was 
raised from the dead. He was raised out of birth agony 
and suffering. 

Romans 10:6-7, “Say not in thy heart, Who shall 
ascend into Heaven? (that is, to bring Christ down;) 
or. Who shall descend into (the Bottomless Pit) the 
Abyss? (that is to bring Christ up from the dead.’’) or 
more literally, “from among the dead.’’ 

Here Paul makes the allusion to the well known 
fact, the basis of his entire teaching of Substitutionary 
Sacrifice, that Jesus went down into the Abyss of Hell, 
in suffering for man. 

He speaks of the same thing in Ephesians 4:8-9, 
“Now this, He ascended, what is it but that He also 
descended into the lower parts of the earth? He that 
descended is the same also that ascended far above all 
the heavens.’’ 

Here he speaks of Jesus going down into the heart 
of the earth, and Hell is located in the heart of the 
earth. 

In 1 Peter 3:18 (Rotherham) “Because Christ also 
once for all concerning sins died, just in behalf of the 


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unjust, in order that He might introduce us to God, be- 
ing put to death indeed in flesh but made alive in spirit.” 

You notice in this, that He was made alive in spirit; 
He would not have been made alive in spirit had not 
He died in spirit. 

You remember I called your attention to the fact 
that Jesus died in spirit on the Cross, before He died in 
the flesh. 

In all these references in Romans where it speaks of 
Christ’s dying, in every case it has reference to a spirit- 
ual instead of a physical death. 

And here it declares that Jesus not only dies in the 
flesh, physically, but that He died in spirit, spiritually, 
and therefore His resurrection was a double resur- 
rection. 

He was made alive, first in spirit, and then in the 
flesh. 

1 Timothy 3:16 tells us that He was justified in 
spirit, that is, He died under Judgment, condemned, 
and when He arose from the dead, God legally justified 
Him and He stood in the presence of God justified. 

In Colossians 2:13 it speaks of His resurrection 
and tells us that ‘‘He put off from Himself the princi- 
palities and the powers, and made a show of them open- 
ly, triumphing over them in it.” 

Here is a picture of Christ in Hell, with the whole 
host of demons attempting to keep Him there, but when 
the penalty of our sin had been fully met, Satan had no 
power to hold Him longer. 

Paul tells us, that ‘‘He was delivered up, on account 


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of our trespasses, and was raised when we stood right 
with God.” 

The very moment the sin problem was settled, that 
moment Jesus Christ was legally justified, was made 
alive in spirit once more, and assumed His wonderful 
dominion, authority, and power. Hurling back the 
hosts of demons. He became the Master of Hell : put- 
ting them off from Himself, He hurled them hopeless 
and powerless back into the dark abyss of Hell. 

What does this mean to us? 

It means that every man that takes Jesus Christ as 
his Savior and confesses Him as his Lord, stands legally 
acquitted in the presence of God. 

It means that God is vindicated; He can now save 
the Believers and judge the sinners. 

Satan is defeated, and man can be free. 

Man is legally justified, heir to eternal life and Son- 
ship privileges. 

Heaven is legally the home of God’s children. 

Hell is legally the home of sinners. 

ADDITIONAL FACTS ABOUT THE SIN-BEARER 

‘‘Behold the Lamb of God that beareth away the sin 
of the world,” John 1 :35. 

Jesus is our sin-bearer. 

When did Jesus bear our sins? 

According to some teachers He bore them from all 
eternity, basing the theory upon that faulty rendering 
of Rev. 1 3:8 when it should read this way, ‘‘And all 
that dwell upon the earth shall worship Him, every one 


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whose name hath not been written from the foundation 
of the world in the Book of Life of the Lamb that hath 
been slain.’* 

Instead of the Lamb being slain from the foundation 
of the world, it really says that our names are written 
in the Book of Life from the foundation of the world. 

Our Savior did not bear sin for us as a substitute till 
He went on the Cross. 

He hung on the Cross evidently three hours before 
He became our sin-bearer. 

He became the sin-bearer the moment that God took 
our sins and laid them upon His spirit, then His whole 
spirit underwent a change and He passed under the do- 
minion of spiritual death and Satan. 

It was then that He cried out, “My God, my God, 
why hast Thou forsaken me;’’ now the blighting curse 
of our sins is upon Him ; He is now shut out from the 
presence of God, His own Father, as our sin-bearer, 
and for hours He hangs there until finally He cried, 
“It is finished,’’ and yielded up His Spirit. 

He does not mean that His substitutionary work is 
finished for that could not be till He arose from the 
dead and carried the tokens of His victory into Heav- 
en’s Holy of Holies, and laid them down before the 
Father, but it did mean that as a man, and a Jew, He 
had fulfilled the Mosaic Law; He had satisfied the 
heart-claims of the Father God as a Son; He had done 
everything that was necessary for our redemption as a 
perfect man. 


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Now He must go into the dreaded regions and pay 
the penalty for our sinful nature. 

Some have thought that the great suffering in Geth- 
semane was because God was laying sin upon Him 
then; others have said it was a struggle with the devil 
who was trying to slay Him. 

All these are beside the issue. 

Neither angels nor demons could slay Jesus till He 
became mortal and He did not become mortal till our 
sin was laid upon Him and He died spiritually. 

Again, there was no sin on Jesus in Gethsemane; 
He was well-pleasing to the Father; the Beloved Son 
was strengthened by Angels there, but when He hung 
on the Cross there was no angelic ministration, He 
suffered alone, an outcast from God and a substitute 
for the whole world. 

The real suffering of Gethsemane was this : He saw 
that as a sin-substitute He must be separated from His 
Father and must become a subject of Satan; more than 
that. He must become sin. 

He who was as Holy as God is Holy, He in whom 
sin had never found place, must now become the ac- 
cursed one, and His whole Being shrank from it and 
He cried out, “Father if it be possible take this cup 
from me,” and in His awful agony and struggle He 
continued, “Not my will but Thine be accomplished.” 

It was not the cry of submission, it was the cry of the 
Hero Christ, the Hero Man, our princely Savior God. 

He would go through Hell itself for our redemption. 


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A FURTHER WORD ON JESUS* DUAL DEATH 

Isaiah 53:9, “They made His grave with the 
wicked, and with a rich man in His death (Heb. 
Deaths) : although He had done no violence, neither 
was any deceit in His mouth.” 

The nature of the Death of Jesus holds the key to 
His “Substitutionary Sacrifice.” 

What kind of a death did He die? 

Was it merely Physical or was there a Spiritual 
Death, a Death of His Spirit? 

This quotation from Isaiah gives us a key, it de- 
clares, “they made His grave with a rich man in His 
deaths.” 

Man was spiritually dead and for Him to pay the 
penalty of Man’s transgression He must as Paul tells 
us in Heb. 2 : “Experience death for every man.” 

We know that the Physical Death of Jesus would 
not satisfy the claims of Justice, so it was necessary 
that He become identified with our union with the 
devil, that He actually die spiritually and become a 
partaker of Spiritual Death. 

If He did this then He could be sent to the same 
place that we should have to be sent for our guilt. 

The fact of His Dual Death is brought out very 
clearly in the New Testament. 

In Paul’s sermon in Acts 13:32-33 Paul says, 
“And we bring you good tidings of the promise made 
unto the fathers, that God hath fulfilled the same unto 
our children, in that he raised up Jesus; as also it is 


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written in the second psalm, Thou art my Son, this day 
have I begotten thee. And as concerning that he raised 
him up from the dead, now no more to return to cor- 
ruption,” 

He is speaking here of the Resurrection of the Lord 
Jesus and he says that when Jesus was raised from the 
dead He was begotten of the Father. 

In other words, He was born of the Spirit. 

What does he mean by it? 

It has no reference whatever to Jesus’ birth as a 
Babe in the Manger in Bethlehem. 

It has reference to His Resurrection. 

We know that when Jesus died it was under the 
curse, that God had laid our sin upon Him; Him that 
knew no sin, God had made to become sin on our 
behalf. 

We know that He was reckoned among them that 
are cast off. 

We know that as Moses lifted up the Serpent in the 
wilderness, so Jesus was lifted up a serpent; that is, 
He was a partaker of Satanic Nature, the old Serpent. 

He was a partaker of our nature when this hap- 
pened, when God laid our sin nature upon Him while 
on the cross. 

Peter tells us, ‘‘Christ also suffered for sin, once, the 
Righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us 
to God being put to death in the flesh but made alive 

There is no article before the words flesh and spirit 
in the spirit.” 


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in the Greek and it would read “being put to death in 
flesh but made alive in spirit.” 

Now when was Jesus made alive in spirit? 

That does not mean the Holy Spirit, that means His 
own spirit, Himself. 

It was at the Resurrection; of course, he could not 
have been made alive unless He was dead. 

Now we understand what Paul means in Heb. 2: 
“that he experienced death for every man.” 

In 1 Timothy 3 ; 1 6 Paul tells us that He was justi- 
fied in spirit. 

He could not be Justified until He was first con- 
demned and we know He was not Justified until the 
claims of Justice had been fully satisfied, then the edict 
comes from the Throne of God and our Substitute 
stands legally acquitted in the presence of the demons 
in Hell. 

Next He is given Eternal Life and He that was 
Spiritually dead and under Satan’s Dominion is now 
made alive in spirit, and God says “Thou art my Son, 
this day have I begotten thee.” 

In Col. 1:18 “And he is the head, of the body, the 
church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the 
dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.” 

GRACE BASED UPON RIGHTEOUSNESS 

“That as sin reigned in death, even so might grace 
reign through righteousness unto Eternal Life through 
Jesus Christ our Lord.” 

Sin reigned in the realm of death; Grace reigns in 


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the realm of life, but Grace reigns on the basis of 
Justice. 

When God extended grace to us in Jesus Christ, He 
did it on the ground of Justice. 

If His love has operated in the Sacrifice of Christ 
for the human race, that love has been based upon 
Justice. 

God has never offered remission of sins or Eternal 
Life or the benefits of Sonship to the human till He had 
a legal right to do it. 

Justice is the foundation of the Throne of God. 

God could not offer the sinner remission and Son- 
ship, no matter how much He loved him, unless He 
could do it justly, for if He did He would pauperize 
the man that accepted it. 

And so it was necessary before love could operate, 
that the claims of Justice be satisfied, and so God sent 
His Son down here to pay humanity’s claims to Justice 
and when He had perfectly satisfied the claims of Just- 
ice, then love was permitted to reach her hand out to the 
human. 

Had God pardoned a sinner and given him Sonship 
rights before the claims of Justice against man had 
been satisfied, God would have been unjust, but He did 
not do this. 

God has always, in all His dealings, operated upon 
the ground of perfect Justice, so that when a sinner ac- 
cepts Jesus Christ on the ground of Grace, he is doing it 
on Grace that is founded in Justice. 


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When God makes a present to man. He has a 
right to make a present. 

He has taken advantage of no one. 

His gift is as free as perfect Justice could make it. 

This gives a dignity and beauty to Christianity that 
no other religion has. 

It gives a sense of manliness and virility to Christi- 
anity that it could not have if God had in any wise al- 
lowed Love to usurp the place of Justice; but when 
Justice is laid as a foundation, Love has a right to build 
thereon. 


CHAPTER 

THE 

TENTH 

ETERNAL LIFE 

One day a Jewish lawyer came to Jesus and said, 
“Good Master, what shall I do to inherit Eternal 
Life?” 

This young man represented the most zealous branch 
of the family of Abraham, children of the promise and 
of the Covenant, yet he knew that he did not have the 
one thing above all other things that made him right 
with God. 

On the great day of Atonement, when his sins were 
forgiven, he came away conscious that the real thing 
had not been wrought in his life. 

The hunger was still unsatisfied, the craving unmet. 

He wanted, he needed, he felt, the lack of something 
in his nature that seemed to have been lost somewhere, 
sometime, not from his nature alone but from the nature 
of the human. 

It was something that he knew would round out and 
complete his joy and longings. 

What was it? 


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It was something greater than Atonement, greater 
than Justification under the law, greater than mere 
Forgiveness. 

The word is the key to the Gospel of John; it is the 
key that unlocks the divine side of the plan of re- 
demption. 

It is the biggest word of the Gospel. 

It is the word that stands for the whole heart-teach- 
ing of the Gospel of the grace of God — Eternal Life. 

Man is spiritually dead. 

Spiritual death as you noticed in the previous chapter 
is the nature of the Devil that was imparted to man at 
the Fall. 

It is the getting rid of this Devil nature that God has 
been working for in all the ages. 

This was the reason for Jesus’ Coming to the earth. 

The only thing that will reach man’s need is the 
nature of God, Eternal Life. 

Nothing can take its place. 

It is the one imperative need that lifts its voice above 
all the other many needs of the human. 

Christianity is supernatural. 

It was foreshadowed by a supernatural Judaism. 

It culminates in Jesus the supernatural man, who was 
supernatural in His birth, in His life, in His death, in 
His resurrection, in His ascension, in the gift of the 
Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost, in the birth of the 
Church on that great day, and in the rebirth of every 
child of God. 


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Here is where Christianity differs from every other 
religion. 

A Christian is one who has received Eternal Life, 
the nature of God. 

This reception of Eternal Life is the new birth. 

This is that divine act that changes a man from the 
Family of Satan to the Family of God instantaneously. 

Man is naturally, spiritually, an enemy of God. 

God imparts to him His own nature; this instantly 
changes man’s being and spirit. 

It may be interesting for us to notice the nature of 
Eternal Life. 

John 5:26, “For as the Father hath life in Himself 
even so gave He to the Son also to have life in 
Himself.’’ 

Eternal Life is the nature of God. 

It is the Being, the Substance of God. 

In 2 Peter 1 :4, we are told that we “become partak- 
ers of the divine nature, having escaped from the cor- 
ruption that is in the world through lust.’’ 

The corruption from which we escaped is spiritual 
death, the Satanic nature. 

Here he declares that we become partakers of the 
Divine nature. 

We read in Eph. 2:2, “You hath He made alive 
when ye were dead in your trespasses and sins,’* and 
John 5 :24, “He that heareth my word, and believeth 
him that sent me, hath Eternal Life, and cometh not 
into judgment, but is passed out of death into life.’’ 

And John also tells us in 1 John 3:14, “We know 


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that we have passed out of death into life because we 
love the brethren.” 

From these Scriptures, we see that Eternal Life is 
the nature of God, that to become a child of God means 
that we become partakers of the Divine Nature, Eternal 
Life, and when this takes place, we pass out of death, 
the realm of Satan, into Life, the realm of God, out of 
the dominion of Satan into the dominion of Christ the 
Lord and head of the Church; that when we receive 
Eternal Life, Satanic nature passes out of us, not theo- 
retically but actually and we that were dead are made 
alive. 

Paul states it clearly in 2 Cor. 5:17, “Wherefore 
if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature, the old 
things are passed away; behold they are become new, 
all things are of God.” 

Literally, If any man be in Christ there is a new 
creature, or a new creation, something that has just 
been spoken into existence, as a new star, a full grown 
tree, a house that had never been before; and so it 
reads, “Wherefore if any man be in Christ, there is a 
new creation,” not a modified creation, not a fixed-over 
creation, but a new creation. 

Spiritual death gave to man physical death, or mor- 
tality, for his body. 

The new birth gives Eternal Life to the spirit of man, 
and the promise of Immortality for our physical bodies 
at the return of our Lord Jesus. 


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HOW ETERNAL LIFE IS AVAILABLE 

Let us read first that great Scripture in the Gospel of 
John, 20:30-31, “Many other signs therefore did 
Jesus in the presence of the disciples, which are not 
written in this book : but these are written, that ye may 
believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and 
that believing, ye may have life in His name.” 

Notice how John puts it here, that Jesus did a great 
many things and said a great many things that are 
not recorded in this book, but he recorded these things 
for this purpose, “that ye might believe that Jesus is 
the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing ye might 
have life in His name.” 

The object, then, is that we may have Eternal Life. 

The first step is to read what is written in the 
Gospels that we may know that Jesus is the Son of God. 

For until we know this, seeking Eternal Life will be 
in vain, but having satisfied our intellects that Jesus is 
the Son of God, that He died for our sins according to 
the Scripture, and that He arose again according to 
Scripture, then we can take the next step. 

And the next step is John 1:12, “For as many as 
received Him, to them gives He the right,” not power 
as the old version gives it, but the new word “right,” 
legal right, “to become the sons of God, even to them 
that believe on His name.” 

Receiving Jesus Christ is an act of the will. 

Y ou know that you are without a Savior and without 
approach to God, and without Eternal Life, and you 


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look up to God and say to Him, “God, I know I am 
lost, I know I am spiritually dead and without hope, 
but I have come to know that Jesus the Nazarene is 
Your Son, and that He died for my sins according to 
the Scriptures, and that He arose again from the dead 
because He had legally acquitted me of my guilt and 
sins, and now I take Him to be my Savior and I believe 
You take me to be Your child.” 

And after this prayer, we turn to Romans 10:9, 
“If thou shalt confess with thy mouth Jesus as Lord 
and believe in thy heart that God raised Him from the 
dead, thou shalt be saved.” 

Notice this carefully, “because if thou shalt confess 
with thy mouth Jesus as Lord.” 

It is not enough to take Him as our Savior, we must 
acknowledge His lordship over our lives. 

And the reason for this is very obvious: we have 
been the servants and subjects as well as children of an 
enemy of God. 

We have belonged to the kingdom or the country of 
the Devil. 

Now we want to leave that country and come into 
God’s country, and become naturalized citizens, but 
before we can do this, we must swear allegiance to our 
new Fatherland and make an absolute, unconditional 
break with our old Fatherland. 

And so he says that we must confess Jesus Christ as 
Lord, as the new Ruler of our heart-life, as well as our 
intellectual life. 

One of the difficulties that will confront us is, that 


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we shall wish to have Jesus as Savior but not as our 
Lord. 

Many people want Him as their Savior from Hell, 
but they don’t want Him their Ruler on earth. 

If Jesus becomes your Lord, then He will want to 
have His say in regard to the class of books you read, 
the company you keep, the kind of amusements you 
enjoy, the government of your body, and the kind of 
home you make. 

He will want to have something to say about your 
finances, what you do with them, how you make them, 
and how you use them. 

He will want to have something to say in regard to 
marriage and children and the home. 

He will want to dictate as to your vocation in life 
and where you live. 

Yes, He will want to enter into every department of 
your life. 

This makes the Christian life blessed. 

It robs life of its weakness, frailty, and its human 
guidance, and it lifts it into the realm of the super- 
natural. 

Now that you have received Eternal Life, the nature 
of the great Father God, seek to govern your life 
accordingly, and let this new life manifest itself in your 
daily conduct. 


CHAPTER 

THE 

ELEVENTH 

THE NEW BIRTH 

The New Birth is the heart of Christianity. 

From the fall of man to Pentecost every plan and 
purpose in the scheme of Redemption had centered in 
this. 

This is the reason for the Old Testament. 

This is the reason for Judaism. 

This is the reason for the prophets. 

This is the reason for the Incarnation. 

This is the reason for the Substitutionary Sacrifice 
of Jesus. 

Here heads up the heart dream of the Eternal Father 
God. 

The integrity of the New Birth is the integrity of the 
Family. 

If we can impugn this fundamental then the whole 
superstructure from the first sacrifice after the catastro- 
phe in Eden to the Resurrection of Jesus Christ falls 
in helpless ruin. 

It is no wonder that a man’s interpretation of the 


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New Birth determines his whole Christian experience. 

This is the crux of Christianity. 

A denomination is known by its view of the New 
Birth. 

This is no place for human speculation — to the Law 
and to the Covenants. 

They and they alone can settle this question. 

If the New Birth is not supernatural, Christianity 
is one of the religions of the world. 

If the New Birth is supernatural, Christianity is a 
Family and not a religion. 

If the New Birth is simply a conversion to new 
concepts or a theory then Christianity is purely a human 
product, blessed or unblessed by God. 

This subject is of vital importance so we will investi- 
gate it with analytical thoroughness. 

THE FOUR VIEWS 

There are four views of the New Birth current 
to-day. 

First, the oldest and most popular is known as the 
“Dual Nature Theory,” which bases its teaching upon 
the 7th Chapter of Romans with Gal. 5:17 and a few 
other proof texts. 

The second theory, held by a very large body of 
people, is known as the “Wesleyan Theory.” 

The third is known as the “After Resurrection 
Birth,” that one is not born again until after the 
Resurrection. 

This presupposes the sleep of the dead, that is, that 


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when one dies the whole man, body, soul and spirit, 
goes into the grave and remains there until the Res- 
urrection. 

The fourth is called the “Gradual Theory,” or the 
“Love Theory.” 

There is a fifth teaching of the New Birth, that is 
just regaining a foothold among the Churches: that 
teaching is the reason for this book. 

We will call it for convenience sake the “New 
Testament Teaching” or the “Relationship Teaching.” 


THE NEED OF THE NEW BIRTH 

It might be well for us to notice first, the need of the 
New Birth. 

Jesus is the first one who speaks of the New Birth 
and in His night talk to Nicodemus He tells us with 
divine accuracy what the New Birth is and the need of 
it. 

First, that no one can see or understand the Kingdom 
of God except he is born from above, that is, except the 
life of God come down into his being. 

Second, no one can enter the Kingdom of God ex- 
cept he is born of water and the Spirit. 

Nicodemus can not understand it and then Jesus 
says, “That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that 
which is bom of the spirit is spirit; marvel not that 
I say unto you, ye must be born from above.” 

In this Scripture Jesus shows the difference between 
the natural and the spiritual man. 


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One is born of natural generation and the other is 
born of the Spirit. 

Again Jesus, speaking to the Jews tells them that 
they are of their father, the Devil, that they are par- 
takers of Satanic Nature. 

This with His other statement, that they that believe 
on Him shall pass out of death into life, shows that 
Jesus believed man to be spiritually dead, a child of 
the Devil, and the New Birth is to be a change of 
nature which will mean a change of relationship. 

Paul tells us in Ephesians 2:1-3, “And you did He 
make alive, when ye were dead in your trespasses and 
sins, wherein ye once walked according to the course 
of this world, according to the Prince of the powers of 
the air, of the spirit that now worketh in the sons of 
disobedience; among whom we also all once lived in 
the lusts of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and 
of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even 
as the rest.” 

Here man is by Nature a child of wrath, he is 
spiritually dead, and, in the 1 2th verse he is “without 
God,’’ Godless. 

That destroys the “Spark of Divinity*’ Theory. 

He is “without hope,’’ hopeless; he is dead in tres- 
passes, he is separated from Christ. 

He belongs to the family of Satan, 1 John 3:10, 
“In this the children of God are manifest and the 
children of the devil.’’ 

Being a child of the Devil, a partaker of his father’s 
nature, it makes a New Birth imperative. 


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He is under condemnation, he has no legal approach 
to God, and can not approach Him except through the 
Mediator Jesus Christ. 

THE NATURE OF THE NEW BIRTH 

Let us look next at the New Testament Teaching of 
the New Birth, or of a New Birth that is in harmony 
with the Family Teaching. 

First, we will look at the Legal side of the New 
Birth. 


LEGAL AND VITAL 

Perhaps much confusion has been occasioned be- 
cause we have not differentiated between the Legal and 
the Vital sides of the New Birth. 

One school of Theology has magnified the Legal 
side and another the Vital. 

One has only seen the court-house aspect while the 
other sees but the experimental. 

Practically all the great family teachings of Script- 
ure can be understood by the close analogy of our home 
life. 

Marriage is legal and vital. 

There is the legal side of the marriage which lays the 
foundation for the vital, or the experimental union of 
the two. 


THE LEGAL SIDE 

The legal part of the New Birth is that portion 
enacted in the Court House of Heaven. 


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When the sinner accepts Jesus Christ as his Savior 
and confesses Him as his Lord that starts the legal 
machine in the Court House in Heaven. 

First, his sins are Remitted, wiped out as though 
they had never been. 

Second, he is legally Justified or set right with God. 

Third, his name is written in the Book of Life, the 
Family Birthday Book. 

Fourth, he is legally Adopted into the Family and 
this has to be done in the court-house. 

Fifth, Jesus publicly Confesses him before the Fath- 
er and the Holy Angels. 

Sixth, he is legally Reconciled to the Father. 

child’s legal rights 

All legal steps having been taken, now he has 
first, a legal right to his Father’s protection. 

Second, to Jesus’ intercession. 

Third, he has a Legal Right to the Advocacy of 
Christ, the great Family Lawyer. 

Fourth, he has a Legal Right to the gift of the Holy 
Spirit. 

Fifth, he has a Legal Right to a son’s place in the 
Royal Family. 

Sixth, he has a Legal Right to a son’s inheritance. 

When you overlook the Legal side of the New Birth 
you are rearing an experimental superstructure without 
a foundation and the building will surely fall. 

Here is the reason that so many who teach only the 


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experimental side of the New Birth have so many 
backsliders. 


THE VITAL SIDE 

This is the work that the Holy Spirit does in the 
believer when he publicly confesses Christ as Savior and 
Lord. 

First, the Holy Spirit overshadows him. 

He is immersed in the Spirit and this is the real 
Baptism of the Holy Spirit. 

The receiving of the Holy Spirit into his body comes 
later. 

Second, the Holy Spirit imparts to his spirit the 
Nature of God, Eternal Life. 

This makes him alive in Christ. 

Third, the Peace of God that passeth all under- 
standing floods his soul. 

Fourth, the Holy Spirit witnesses with his spirit 
that he is a child of God. 

Fifth, the Love of God is shed abroad in his heart 
by the Holy Spirit and he knows he has passed from 
Death into Life because he loves the brethren. 

Joy fills his heart and he cries “Abba, Father,” and 
he knows that he is a child of God, joint-heir with 
Jesus Christ the Lord. 

There is no guess work about this, the New Birth 
is in the realm of exact Sciences. 

There is no leap in the dark here, there is no specu- 
lation. 


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The Legal and the Vital parts of the New Birth 
are both wrought by God alone. 

man’s PART 

It will be interesting for us to note now the part Man 
has to do in this wonderful operation known as the 
New Birth. 

First, he hears the message. 

Hearing the message in the Scriptual sense means 
understanding it. 

He comes to know that he is Spiritually dead, a 
child of the Devil without God and without Hope. 

Second, he hears of the promise of the Incarnation 
and Substitutionary sacrifice of Jesus of Nazareth on 
his behalf. 

Third, he takes Jesus Christ as his Savior and con- 
fesses Him before the world as his Lord ; and when he 
does this, God takes him to be His child. 

All this is very simple, easily understood. 

The moment that this is done God makes him a new 
Creation, old things pass away, all things have become 
new and all things have been wrought of God. 

SCRIPTURAL DEFINITIONS 

Jesus says, “He that believeth on me has passed out 
of death into life.’’ 

This is passing out of the realm of Spiritual Death, 
Satanic Kingdom, into the realm of Life, the Family 
of God. 

Again Jesus defines it as being “Born from Above.’’ 


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Birth means Life. 

This is divine impartation of the Father’s Nature by 
the energy of the Spirit. 

Paul says, “You hath He made alive when you were 
dead in your trespasses and sins.” 

This is a statement of fact. 

Man is Spiritually Dead, he is a possessor of the 
nature of the Devil, Spiritual Death, and now he be- 
comes a possessor of the Nature of God, Eternal Life, 
and the moment that he becomes a possessor of this 
new Nature, he is made Alive; that is, the part of him 
that was dead is now alive. 

It does not say one-half alive or partially alive or that 
he is dead and alive, but that he is made Alive. 

John says, “He that hath the Son hath the life; he 
that hath not the Son of God hath not the life. 

These things have I written unto you, that ye may 
know that ye have Eternal Life.” 

This is not a future possession but a present tense 
possession. 

He had Death but now he has Life. 

Again John says, “We know that we have passed 
out of death into life, because we love the brethren. 

“He that loveth not abideth in death,” and no one 
that hateth his brother has Eternal Life abiding in him. 

Notice three facts. 

First, he has passed out of death into life and has a 
conscious proof of it, in that he loves the brethren. 

Second, the man that does not love has not yet passed 
out of Death but still abides in the realm of Satan. 


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Third, no one who hates has Eternal Life abiding 
in him. 

Notice that this Eternal Life is something abiding 
in the man, it is a present possession. 

It has made him Alive. 

It was an impartation of God’s own Nature or 
Life to him. 

Paul says again, “Wherefore if any man is in Christ, 
he is a new creature: the old things are passed away; 
behold, they are become new, but all things are of 
God.’’ 

Literally if any man takes Christ as his Savior that 
man is a New Creation, 

He is not a re-built building, or one who has been 
fixed over or one that has received Eternal Life without 
losing the old nature. 

No, Paul says distinctly that he is a New Creation, 
that the old things, that is old nature, has passed away 
and that the old structure has been displaced by a new 
one, that God has wrought the work Himself. 

It is all of God. 

From these Scriptures it is very difficult to see how 
the Dual Nature Theory can be accepted or the Second 
Work of Grace Theory, for to be Born Again means 
to become God’s very child, for He said “Thou art 
no longer servants but sons, and if sons then heirs of 
God through Christ ; .... for as many as are led by 
the Spirit of God, these become the sons of God;” 
not Converted, not Justified in the Wesleyan sense, but 


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actually become the very children of God as much as 
was Jesus when He walked the earth. 

THE INTEGRITY OF THE NEW BIRTH 

Peter tells us, “Not begotten of corruptible seed but 
of the incorruptible, even the word of God that liveth 
and abideth forever.” 

James tells us we are “begotten by the Will of 
God.” 

This establishes the integrity of our relationship. 

We are not illegitmate children, not hybrids or half 
breeds but we are legitimately born children of God. 

Not only are we Legally Born but we are also 
legally adopted into God’s Family so that our relation- 
ship is doubly secure, an actual Birth and a legal 
Adoption. 


THE DUAL THEORY 

Now let us notice the “Dual Nature Theory.” 

This is the outgrowth of Calvinism. 

Calvin only saw the Legal side of the Plan of 
Redemption. 

We would not for a moment belittle the influence of 
that mighty man of God but if we are to grow it is 
necessary to receive new light upon the Word of God 
continually. 

Revelation has never been locked within a Creed. 

The moment we attempt to limit Revelation to hu- 
man creeds and doctrines we close the heart and mind 
against further light from the Scriptures. 


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Those who believe in the Dual Nature Theory teach 
us that when man is born Again he receives Eternal 
Life but that the Adamic Nature is not removed and 
that these two Natures are now at war with each other 
in the Human. 

They base this teaching upon the 7th Chapter of 
Romans. 

This is not the experience of a believer but of Paul as 
a Jew under the Law. 

This chapter is a treatise on the Law showing the 
relation of the Law to the awakened conscience of a 
Jew. 

If the reader will turn to this Chapter and read it 
carefully he will see that the whole argument is the 
argument of a Jew before he is Born Again. 

He says, “I was alive apart from the law once: but 
when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died 
and sin finding occasion, through the commandment 
beguiled me, and through it slew me.” 

The believer is not under the Law, he has nothing to 
do with it whatever. 

The Law belongs only to the Jew. 

Again he says, ‘‘For we know that the Law is spirit- 
ual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.” 

We know that the believer is not sold under sin but 
he has been made free from sin and become a bond- 
servant of righteousness. 

Again Paul says, ‘‘For that which I do I know not: 
for not what I would, that do I practice; but what I 
hate, that I do.” 


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This is not the experience of a child of God, “But 
if what I would not, that I do, I consent unto the law 
that it is good,” (but ye are not under the Law but 
under grace), so now “it is no more I that do it, but sin 
which dwelleth in me.” 

Sin does not dwell in the believer. 

Here sin is spoken of as something that was dwelling 
in Paul. 

If sin has habitation in the believer and the believer 
is a subject of it then God is united to sin, or in other 
words, to the Devil. 

“I find then, in regard of the law, that, to me who 
would do good, evil is present. 

For I delight in the law of God after the inward 
man : but I see a different law in my members, warring 
against the law of my mind, and bringing me into 
captivity under the law of sin which is in my members.” 

The Ten Commandments are the Law of Sin, they 
are the revealer of Sin. 

They told the penalty of sin, and Paul delights in 
this Law from an intellectual point of view, as do the 
Unitarians to-day but he found another law working 
in his mind, it was the Law of Sin and Spiritual Death. 

SONS ARE FREEMEN 

The believer is free from the Dominion of the Law. 

The believer is free from the Dominion of Sin. 

The believer is free from the Dominion of Spiritual 
Death. 

The believer is free from the Dominion of Satan. 


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The believer is now under the Dominion of the 
Grace of God. 

Could a child of God utter this cry? “Wretched 
man that I am ! who shall deliver me out of the body of 
this death?” 

That is not the language of a child of God, that is 
the language of a Jew under the Law that has seen his 
actual condition and has also seen the possibilities of 
Redemption in Christ Jesus our Lord. 

In Gal. 5 : 1 6 is another proof-text of the Dual Na- 
ture Theorist, “But I say. Walk by the Spirit, and ye 
shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh. 

For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the 
Spirit against the flesh ; for these are contrary the one to 
the other ; that ye may not do the things that ye would. 

But if ye are led by the Spirit, ye are not under the 
law.” 


CONTRAST 

In this Epistle Paul is contrasting the Jew under the 
Law and the believer under Grace for the Book of 
Galatians is a book of contrasts. 

It is a contrast of Law and Grace. 

It is a contrast of Faith and Works. 

It is a contrast of Sons and Servants. 

It is a contrast of Circumcision and New Birth. 

It is a contrast of Promise and Law, of Flesh and 
Spirit, that is Natural Man and Spiritual Man. 

It is a contrast of Christianity and Judaism. 

It is a contrast of Love and Legality. 


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We know that Man is a spirit. 

We know that he lives in a physical body. 

We know that nearly all the sins that are committed 
are committed through physical senses. 

We know that these physical senses can become dis- 
torted, dissipated, abnormal so they will crave un- 
natural gratification. 

We know that the believer’s life is a battle with his 
physical body. 

The reason for this is, that none of us are normal 
human beings. 

Parental sins have set our teeth on edge. 

We are living in the realm of Spiritual Death where 
Satan is the Emperor. 

Evil suggestions and temptations are in the very air 
we breathe. 

Most of the people with whom we associate are 
under the Dominion of the Devil. 

Satan’s appeal always comes through the physical 
senses, so Man’s only hope is to live in the spirit. 

I don’t mean the Holy Spirit, but in his own spirit 
realm, instead of dreaming of gratifying physical pas- 
sions or desires, he is to live in the realm of the spiritual, 
his own spirit fellowshiping with the Spirit of God. 

This is the only way to overcome the influence of 
his physical body upon himself and so Paul says here, 
“If we walk by the spirit,’’ more literally, if we walk 
in the realm of the spirit, “ye shall not fulfill the lusts of 
the flesh,’’ for the members of your body are combating 


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against your spirit and your spirit is contending against 
your flesh or the members of your body. 

TEMPTATION AND SIN 

The cries of your perverted physical body are not 
sin but if you yield fo them it is sin and every appeal of 
Satan will come on this level, so there is going to be a 
combat, until your physical body is brought into sub- 
jection to your spirit, but if you let the Holy Spirit 
dominate your spirit He will lead you out into liberty 
and victory over these temptations. He will bring your 
physical body into perfect submission, so that your life 
will be tranquil, pure, and victorious. 

Paul says in Romans 6: “Let not sin therefore reign 
in your mortal body, that ye should obey the lusts there- 
of : neither present your members unto sin as instruments 
of unrighteousness ; but present yourselves unto God, as 
alive from the dead, and your members as instruments 
of righteousness unto God.” 

He is bringing the same truth to the Roman believers. 

They have been Born Again, are New Creations, 
free from the Dominion of Sin, Satan, and the Law, 
but he says, “I don’t want you to let sin reign as king 
in this death-doomed body of yours, neither do I want 
you to present your members unto sin as weapons of 
unrighteousness against your spirit but present your- 
selves unto God as alive from the dead and your mem- 
bers as weapons of righteousness. 

Y ou are living in the physical body. 

Your spirit and soul are operating through the mem- 


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bers of your body, namely: your eyes, your ears, your 
mouth, your hands, your feet, your organs, your 
appetite.” 

Practically all the sins in the world to-day are sins 
connected with these members. 

The whole combat of your life to-day is to bring 
these members under perfect control so that they do not 
break the fellowship between your spirit and the Holy 
Spirit. 

He who knows how to control his tongue, his pas- 
sions and appetites will live a blameless life in this 
crooked and perverse generation. 

DUAL NATURE DILEMMA 

There is nothing wrong in the physical body, but 
if you turn it over to the Devil and allow him to work 
through it, it will destroy the spirit. 

God gave us our body as a servant, we are to rule 
it, but if the servant rules us it is anarchy and confusion. 

Let us look again at the Dual Nature Theory. 

If this theory is right, that man is not a New Crea- 
tion but simply receives a New Nature plus the old 
Nature, that leads us into a strange dilemma. 

We know that this old Nature is Satanic Nature, 
Spiritual Death; then the man who has received this 
New Nature has two Natures, the Nature of God and 
the Nature of the Devil. 

He belongs to two families, the Family of God and 
the family of the Devil. 

Satan has a legal right to rule over his part of the 


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Nature and God has a legal right to rule over His part. 

This gives to man a double nature, man is twins, 
one is Doctor Jekyl and the other is Mr. Hyde: 
legally a child of God and legally a child of the Devil. 

To follow this out logically, one half of man can go 
to Hell and the other half to Heaven. 

This Theory would be humorous if it were not so 
serious; but the problem is, when does man get rid of 
this Satanic nature. 

Their answer is, at Death. 

We know that Death is of the Devil, this leads us 
into a still worse dilemma. 

If this is so, the sacrifice of Jesus Christ has failed 
in its object. 

The man who has accepted Him as his Savior is only 
partly saved, he is not redeemed. 

Satan still has a legal right to rule over him. 

Jesus Christ is obliged to divide His Dominion with 
the Devil. 

This is humiliating. 

The Fall of Man was a finished product, the Re- 
demption is a fumble. 

The New Birth is a hybrid, a bitter failure. 

The humiliating part of it is that according to this 
theory God is obliged to seek the Devil’s assistance in 
order to perfect Man. 

Death, the first child of Satan, is to put the finishing 
touches on the New Creation, God’s child: if Man is 
cleansed or made free from the Adamic Nature by 
Physical Death why was it that God did not permit 


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Physical Death to save the whole human race, for all 
die? 

This thing is too abhorrent to even contemplate. 

We can not accept for a moment the logic of the 
Dual Nature Theory. 

It makes God justify a child of the Devil or a 
hybrid at the best. 

It makes God unite Himself with the Devil in the 
human. 

It makes Jesus’ statement, “I am the vine, ye are 
the branches” grotesque. 

It makes Satan, our destroyer, in the end our 
redeemer. 

The heart shrinks from this teaching. 

We believe that the New Birth is a New Birth. 

We believe that the New Creation is a New Cre- 
ation. 

We believe that God was able to do as finished a 
work in Man’s Redemption as the Devil did in his 
Destruction. 

We believe that the New Birth glorifies God, mag- 
nifies Jesus Christ and exalts the human. 

THE SECOND WORK THEORY 

It is not a desirable task to array one’s self against the 
religions of the world and especially a portion of that 
great body who have proved to be the most devout and 
deeply zealous of all the Family of God, and I know 
my readers recognize that I do not come to these great 
experimental teachings of the Church with a spirit of 


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resentment or hostility but as a fellow-member of the 
body of Christ who believes he has an answer to this 
problem that has agitated the Church during the last 
hundred years. 

The writer loves the members of the Family as he 
loves himself and would speak with the freedom that 
love gives on these great themes. 

The Wesleyan Theory is practically identical with 
the Dual Nature Theory only they express themselves 
in different language. 

They say very little about the New Birth and 
seldom mention the fact that we are made Alive or 
receive Eternal Life. 

They talk much about Justification and Adoption. 

It would seem as though the fact of the New Cre- 
ation, as a New Creation had never been given serious 
consideration. 

They teach that when one accepts Jesus Christ as 
Savior that God justifies him of all that he ever did, 
that is He forgives him of his sins but that He does not 
remove the sin nature, the cause of his sins. 

This step which is called conversion is considered 
simply a preliminary. 

The real work is known as the Second Work of 
Grace, or being Wholly Sanctified. 

This Second Work comes to the convert only when 
he has surrendered himself utterly to the Lord, has 
repented deeply and has sought diligently for a clean 
heart. 


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They do not believe that the heart is made clean at 
conversion, as that term is used. 

They make a distinction between sin and sins. 

Sin, is what we are by nature, sins, what we do. 

The culmination of this seeking and humbling of 
ourselves is that The Blood is applied and our hearts 
are made clean and we are wholly Sanctified. 

Many of their teachers have believed that when one 
is converted he receives the Holy Spirit in a limited 
measure, that when he becomes wholly Sanctified the 
Spirit fills the temple. 

They also teach that one can lose this gracious 
blessing of a clean heart, or Sanctification, by the 
slightest known sin. 

For this reason the majority of those who go to the 
altar and honestly seek for this blessing lose it in a few 
weeks or months after the struggle for it. 

Those who are familiar with Mr. Wesley’s Journal 
remember that he confronted this same difficulty, when 
he returned in his itinerancy, that in some places many 
who had received this Second Work of Grace and 
rejoiced greatly in its reception, were found under a 
cloud, backslidden, and the work needed to be done 
again. 

This teaching has produced an unstable and vacil- 
lating type of Christianity. 

It has made the recipient skeptical of himself and 
others. 

It has not been a healthful teaching but it has pro- 
duced in the face of all this, by the Grace of God, 


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some magnificent Christians, yet it has caused a wreck- 
age that fills the heart with pain ; but if I were to choose 
between the Dual Nature Theory and the Second 
Work Theory I would chose the latter. 

We thank God that through Jesus Christ our Lord 
we have a genuine New Birth that honors God and 
satisfies the craving of the human spirit; and after the 
New Birth, we have the privilege, the legal right, to 
receive the Holy Spirit into our bodies to make them 
His permanent home. 

AFTER RESURRECTION THEORY 

Those who first formulated this theory denied the 
personality of the Holy Spirit and turned out the Light 
and attempted to study the Revelation of God in the 
dark. 

They denied the Deity of the Holy Spirit so that 
being born of the Spirit was an impossibility as one can 
not be born of Atmosphere or Influence, consequently 
all that they could receive was the promise of Eternal 
Life, of a Savior, and of a New Birth, at the Resurrec- 
tion. 

On the ground of this teaching there could be no 
sons, no New Birth, no Father God, no Family of God. 

They were simply hoping, trusting, trying, looking 
forward to the coming back of Jesus Christ and the 
Resurrection of the dead. 

They were simply sinners hungering for a son’s 
place in God’s Family but with no means of acquiring 
it. 


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They believed in annihilation of the wicked so there 
was only one thing they could do, they must accept the 
Sleep of the Dead. 

They could not go to Hell because they did not 
believe in a literal Hell and having accepted Christ as 
a prospective Savior they could not be annihilated, but 
not having been Born Again they could not go to 
Heaven. 

There was nothing left but the grave and so they 
accepted the Theory of the Sleep of the Dead that was 
to be ended by the coming of Christ when they should 
be Born Again. 

This is an unhappy, unsatisfactory and God-dis- 
honoring Theory, Jesus Christ has failed, God did not 
meet the needs of the Human in His Redemption. 

Death is again a welcome friend. 

But the sleep of the Dead is incompatible with the 
Family Teaching. 

If we are God’s children, partakers of Divine Na- 
ture it is not reasonable that we should be locked up in 
a tomb in the cursed earth all these long years away 
from our Father, a subject of the Devil, but rather that 
if we are His children He would want us in His 
presence to-day. 


CHAPTER 

THE 

TWELFTH 

THE HOLY SPIRIT 

This has been called the Age or Dispensation of the 
Holy Spirit. 

When Jesus was about to leave the disciples He 
promised that He would send the Holy Spirit into the 
world who should become their Teacher, Guide, and 
Comforter. 

This coming Being was going to have charge of the 
ministry and the work of the Church. 

He was going to guide the Church as a whole, and 
guide its members as individuals. 

He was to overshadow the Church and they were to 
walk in His presence. 

He was to come also into the individual member’s 
body, and take up His abode there so that He might 
govern their actions, think through their minds, love 
through their affections, and will through their wills. 

Their body was to be His permanent home. 

Under the old dispensation, He had dwelt between 
the Cherubim in the Holy of Holies; now He is to 


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dwell in the soul and spirit of man, this new tabernacle 
of flesh. 

First, I want you to notice that the Holy Spirit is a 
person. 

In Matt. 28:19 Jesus says, “Go ye into all the 
world and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing 
them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of 
the Holy Spirit.” 

Here Jesus gives the Holy Spirit the same place, the 
same personality, the same honor, that He gives to the 
Father and to Himself. 

In 1 Cor. 2:10-14, “But unto us God revealed 
them through the Spirit; for the Spirit searcheth all 
things, yea, the deep things of God. 

“For who among men knoweth the things of a man, 
save the spirit of the man, which is in him? even so the 
things of God none knoweth, save the Spirit of God. 

“Which things also we speak, not in words which 
man’s wisdom teacheth, but which the Spirit teacheth ; 
combining spiritual things with spiritual words. 

“Now the natural man receiveth not the things of 
the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him; 
and he cannot know them, because they are spiritually 
understood.” 

Here the Spirit is the searcher of the deep things of 
God. 

He is the teacher of the Church and He knows the 
mind of God and He reveals that mind of God to the 
individual child of God. 


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This perfectly agrees with what Jesus said in John 
1 6, that the Holy Spirit was to convict the world of sin, 
of righteousness, and of judgment, and that He was to 
guide us into all truth for He should not speak from 
Himself but whatsoever things He heard “these shall 
He speak; and He shall declare unto you the things 
that are to come. He shall glorify me; for He shall 
take of mine, and shall declare it unto you.” 

In these ministries the Spirit reveals an intellect that 
thinks and guides. 

In Romans 15:30 Paul speaks of the “love of the 
Spirit,” and in Romans 5:5 he says that “the love of 
God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Spirit.” 

By these Scriptures we infer that the Holy Spirit is 
the channel through which this new wonderful love 
nature of God is revealed to the individual members of 
the Body of Christ. 

Again in 1 Cor. 12:11 Paul says that, these various 
gifts are distributed “severally even as He wills.” 

In other words, the Holy Spirit has the guidance and 
the plans for the Church, and He gives to one man the 
gift of wisdom, to another the gift of knowledge, to one 
the gift of healing and to another the gift of tongues, but 
He divides these as He pleases for His will is sovereign. 

Jesus has honored the Holy Spirit by giving Him a 
position of equality with the Father, not as a Spirit 
that emanates from the Father, but an individual per- 
sonality who has intellect, sensibilities, and will. 

We believe the Holy Spirit to be a person. 


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211 


The Holy Spirit is not an emanation from the Spirit 
of God. 

God is a person with intellect, sensibilities and will. 

By way of illustration, we speak of the spirit of a 
man ; that spirit can not leave a man, it is a part of his 
personality. 

The Scriptures speak of the Spirit of Christ: “If a 
man has not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of His.” 

This Spirit of Christ mentioned here is not the Holy 
Spirit, but it is Christ’s* own Spirit, a part of His own 
individual personality. 

Now the Holy Spirit is a distinct being, a personality 
distinct from God the Father, and God the Son. 

Operating in His own sphere, having His own per- 
sonality, the Holy Spirit is different from the Father 
and the Son in this respect, that the Son now has a 
human body and is seated at the right hand of the 
Father and the Father holds His place on the Eternal 
Throne. 

The Spirit’s special place of activity to-day is on 
earth, convicting of sin, holding back the powers of 
darkness, recreating members of the Family of God, 
and guiding, comforting, and indwelling their bodies. 

The Holy Spirit’s home is the human body. 

“Know ye not that your body is the temple of the 
Holy Spirit.’’ 

“Greater is He that is in you than he that is in the 
world.’* 

In the Old Testament times the Holy Spirit’s work 
as indicated in the Scriptures was in creation, renewing 


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the face of the earth, inspiring men to write the Holy 
Oracles of God, coming upon men for special oper- 
ations and special works of might and leadership. 

His permanent home then was in the tabernacle, 
afterward the Temple. 

The Holy Spirit did not make His permanent abode 
in the body of man then because man was spiritually 
dead, a child of the Devil, though he lived under the 
Blood Covenant and was sheltered by the Atonement 
Blood. 

He could not make His home in the human body 
until man had been recreated, and this could not take 
place until Christ had come and paid the penalty of sin, 
taken His seat as Mediator, and sent Eternal Life to 
the men who would take Him as Savior. 

The Holy Spirit’s work to-day is first that of a 
convictor of the world. 

He does this through the preached Word, through 
the Living Word in the lives of believers, through the 
written word the Scriptures, or religious literature. 

His work in the individual members of the Family of 
God is that of a Teacher and Guide and Comforter, 
Overcomer, and Sanctifier. 

The Holy Spirit’s real home is the heart of God’s 
children but He does not come into every believer at 
the New Birth. 

The New Birth is receiving the life, the nature of 
God. 

This makes him a child of God and a human temple 
for the Holy Spirit to indwell. 


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After he is born again he has a legal right to ask the 
Holy Spirit to come into his body and take possession 
of it. 


RECEIVING THE HOLY SPIRIT 

This subject has recently been a bone of contention 
in the Theological world. 

There is as much confusion about this as about the 
New Birth but a clear understanding of the Word in 
regard to the New Birth makes this subject easy to 
understand. 

The New Birth is receiving Eternal Life, Justifica- 
tion and Adoption. 

Receiving the Holy Spirit is simply inviting the 
person Holy Spirit to come into these bodies of ours 
after we have been Born Again and making them His 
permanent abode. 

The sinner does not want the Holy Spirit, he wants 
a Savior and Eternal Life so Jesus says in John 14: 
16-17, “And I will pray the Father, and he shall give 
you another Comforter, that he may be with you for 
ever, even the Spirit of truth: whom the world cannot 
receive ; for it beholdeth him not, neither knoweth him ; 
ye know him ; for he abideth with you, and shall be in 
you. 

Notice first, that the world can not receive Him. 

Here the world means unregenerate man. 

Second, that He was abiding with the disciples who 
had not been Born Again. 

They were simply Jews under the Law until Christ 


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had paid the penalty of their sin and sent Eternal Life 
to them by the Holy Spirit on the Day of Pentecost. 

Third, Jesus says, “He shall be in you.” 

Notice the tense is future. 

In Luke 11:13 Jesus says, “If ye then being evil, 
know how to give good gifts unto your children, how 
much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy 
Spirit to them that ask him?” 

You will notice here, first, that it is the Father giv- 
ing the Holy Spirit to His children. 

Second, the Holy Spirit is given to the children who 
ask. 

Third, the inference is that only children are eligible 
to receive the Holy Spirit. 

THE TESTIMONY OF ACTS 

The Book of Acts is the final authority on this 
subject 

What did the Apostles do and teach? 

In Peter’s sermon on the Day of Pentecost he con- 
cluded with this, “Repent ye, and be baptized every 
one of you in the name of Jesus Christ unto remission 
of your sins and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy 
Spirit.’’ 

Notice here that he says they are to receive Remis- 
sion of Sins and the Gift of the Holy Spirit. 

See how perfectly this harmonizes with their practice 
in the coming days. 

After the dispersion that was caused by the death of 


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Stephen, Philip goes down to Samaria and begins to 
preach. 

The city turned to the Lord and the people were 
baptized, both men and women. 

“Now when the apostles that were at Jerusalem 
heard that Samaria had received the word of God, they 
sent unto them Peter and John: who, when they were 
come down prayed for them, that they might receive the 
Holy Spirit : for as yet it was fallen upon none of them : 
only they had been baptized into the name of the Lord 
Jesus. 

“Then laid they their hands on them, and they 
received the Holy Spirit.’* 

These converts had accepted Jesus Christ, had been 
baptized, were children of God and then the Apostles 
at Jerusalem sent Peter and John down to pray for 
them that they might receive the Holy Spirit. 

Notice how it reads, “Then laid they their hands on 
them and they received the Holy Spirit.’* 

This is apostolic practice. 

First, men were born into the Family and baptized 
and then hands were laid upon them and they definitely 
received the Holy Spirit into their bodies. 

Again in Acts 19:1-7, “And it came to pass, that, 
while Apollos was at Corinth, Paul having passed 
through the upper country came to Ephesus, and found 
certain disciples: and he said unto them, Did ye re- 
ceive the Holy Spirit when ye believed? And they 
said unto him. Nay, we did not so much as hear wheth- 
er the Holy Spirit was given. And he said, Into what 


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then were ye baptized, And they said, Into John’s 
baptism. And Paul said, John baptized with the 
baptism of repentance, saying unto the people that 
they should believe on him that should come after him, 
that is, on Jesus. And when they had heard this, they 
were baptized into the name of the Lord Jesus'. And 
when Paul had laid his hands upon them, the Holy 
Spirit came on them ; and they spake with tongues, and 
prophesied.” 

Notice how Paul says, ‘‘Did ye receive the Holy 
Spirit when ye believed,” indicating that there were 
some who believed but did not receive the Holy Spirit 
and after he had preached Christ to them they were 
baptized and he laid his hands upon them and they 
received the Holy Spirit. 

This is all very simple and normal, easily under- 
stood, easily done. 

They are children of God and as children they have 
a legal right to the indwelling presence of the Holy 
Spirit in their bodies. 

THE REASON 

The reason why the Holy Spirit comes into our 
bodies is, first, that God can empower us to resist the 
temptations of the Devil best by living in our bodies. 

This Scripture then becomes true, ‘‘Greater is He 
that is in you than he that is in the world.” 

Second, that He may be our Teacher, Guide, and 
Comforter. 


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Third, that He may empower us for testimony and 
service. 

Fourth, that He may make the Father and Jesus real 
to our spirits. 

One reason for the weakness of the Church to-day is 
because the Holy Spirit is simply with them and not in 
them. 

It is not Sanctification that we want or a clean heart 
or a blessing or a new experience but it is the Person 
Holy Spirit. 


HOW HE COMES IN 

First, we know that we are God’s children. 

Second, we are living in fellowship with Him. 

Third, we recognize the Lordship of Jesus over our 
lives. 

Fourth, we know that we have a legal right to His 
indwelling. 

Fifth, in simple confidence we go to the Father and 
ask Him in Jesus’ name to give us the Holy Spirit and 
He will as truly as He gave us Eternal Life when we 
took Christ as our Savior, for His Word can not be 
broken. 


THE DUAL NATURE TEACHING 

Those who hold the Dual Nature Theory are 
obliged by the very exigencies of the case to teach, that 
when one receives Eternal Life he receives the Holy 
Spirit also, but does not receive Him in His fulness; 
he receives a measure of Him and that at some later 


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period he makes a full consecration to the Lord and 
then the Spirit comes in His fulness. 

When this happens, the Spirit then suppresses the 
Adamic Nature and the Devil part of our being and 
becomes strong enough to dominate our conduct. 

We know that this is not true because a sinner can- 
not receive the Holy Spirit because the Holy Spirit 
is only given to sons. 

We know again that the Holy Spirit is not given by 
measure, He is not an Influence nor an Atmosphere but 
a Person who either comes into our life or does not come 
into our life. 

Again neither you nor I can conceive of the Holy 
Spirit coming into a man’s body where the Devil has 
legitimate right to rule. 


CHAPTER 

THE 

THIRTEENTH 


THE NEW LAW OF THE FAMILY 

Jesus was always revolutionary; He was never com- 
monplace. 

No matter from what angle you study the life of 
Jesus, He is out of the ordinary. 

He never accommodated Himself to the errors, the 
fashions, nor the theories of the age in which He lived. 

He came as a witness of the Truth. 

He Himself was the Truth! 

The word we have translated truth, in its heart mean- 
ing is reality. 

That expresses Jesus better than any other English 
word. 

Jesus was Reality! 

He was the embodiment of divine reality, and every 
subject on which He expressed Himself is a revelation. 

His whole ministry and life ran counter to the age in 
which He lived, as well as to this age. 

Jesus would be as much a stranger to-day as He 
was when He first burst upon the horizon of Israel. 


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His new law which is to govern the family is ex- 
pressed in John 13:34-35, “A new commandment I 
give unto you, that ye love one another ; even as I have 
loved you, that ye also love one another. By this shall 
all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love 
one for another.” 

Jesus sometimes was startling, unique in His 
expression. 

Here it would seem He coined a word. 

He wanted to express something and there was no 
Greek word in current use available. 

He had brought to the world a new thing, something 
that had been lost since the Fall. 

It was the old Edenic Love, that had been displaced 
by hatred. 

There had been a verb used, but no noun. 

The verb is agapao , but Jesus gives them the noun 
agapa. 

This was a new kind of Love. 

You see it was a new Family with a new Nature, 
with a new Father. 

They were New people, they must have a language 
that fits this new kingdom, this new Family. 

They had been translated out of the Kingdom of 
Darkness into the Kingdom of the Son of His Love, 
and in this new realm they must have a language 
befitting. 

They must have laws befitting, and so He says, 
‘‘A new commandment give I unto you.” 

What is it? 


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That ye agapa one another even as I have agapaed 
you, (to anglicize the word) . 

I can see the disciples looking at one another, and 
John says to Peter, “Say, this is a new kind of love.** 

Peter shakes his head and says, “Yes, but I don’t 
understand it, it is a puzzle to me; He is bringing so 
many new things that it confuses me ; one moment He is 
talking about Eternal Life, then about the Father, and 
now of this new word agapa, what does He mean,’’ 

And Peter never understood it until Pentecost. 

We catch a glimpse of it in Rom. 5 :5, “The love of 
God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Spirit.’* 

What is this that is shed abroad? 

It is the love of God. 

What is this thing that is shed abroad? 

It is the Nature of God manifesting itself. 

Vegetable Life in the peach tree manifests itself first, 
in the leaf, then the blossom, then the luscious ripened 
fruit. 

The Nature of God, Eternal Life, will manifest 
itself likewise in the Nature, Conduct, and Speech of 
the child of God. 

When one is born from above the Father’s Nature 
comes into his spirit. 

That Nature is bound to manifest itself in Love. 

It will be Divine Love which is so radically different 
from our old Human Love that we can hardly call it 
Love although it operates through the same faculties. 

When the Church was born on Pentecost, the phe- 
nomena of the Jews deliberately giving their property 


222 THE FATHER AND HIS FAMILY 


away and performing other acts as strange were the first 
manifestations of this new kind of Love that had come 
to earth. 

I think it would be well for us to contrast it with 
another Greek word at this point. 

AGAPA AND PHILEO 

The common Greek word in use in Jesus’ day was 
Phileo, which means human love, as the love of a 
mother for her child, the love of husband for his wife. 

This was the highest type of love that man had ever 
felt. 

There were Greek terms that differentiated between 
sex love and lusts but there was no other word for a 
higher kind of love than Phileo. 

This common human love of ours is the most blessed 
asset of the human and yet the most dangerous. 

This Phileo love is the Goddess of the divorce court, 
it is the High Priestess of human suffering, is the parent 
of most of our tears, sorrows, and heart agonies. 

It turns to jealousy and murder at the slightest 
pretext. 

Its true pole is hatred, it has caused more headlines 
in the daily papers than all other human passions. 

It is the underlying cause of human failure. 

It is purely selfish, it feeds only upon self-grati- 
fication. 

Jesus brings a new kind of love, a love that seeketh 
not its own. 


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This in itself is so revolutionary that we in this 
generation can scarcely credit it. 

This new kind of love is the real religion of the heart 
nature of God. 

Human love is the interpretation of the human; this 
new kind of love is the interpretation of God. 

This old love springs from the natural heart, this new 
love springs from the recreated heart. 

One is the manifestation of natural man and the 
other the manifestation of God in the new man. 

Agapa never turns to hatred, never becomes jealous, 
is never afflicted with unbelief. 

Agapa is tender, forbearing, full of long suffering 
and kindness, it is absolutely unselfish, seeking only the 
joy and welfare of others. 

Human love can’t do this, you may talk glibly about 
it, but after all self is the center around which it must 
ever move. 

Agapa has a new center. 

This center is outside of itself, it is God. 

Phileo has utterly failed. 

We have the statement of Scripture that Agapa 
never fails. 

Agapa is God acting through the lives of His 
children. 

There can be no Agapa manifestation to-day except 
through those who have become partakers of the Divine 
nature. 

There is no such thing as a synthetic Agapa, it is 
one thing that cannot be duplicated, it is the genius and 


224 THE FATHER AND HIS FAMILY 


badge of Christianity, it is God’s manifestation in the 
flesh, it is the heart of God throbbing in the human. 

All other religions break down here; the best they 
have is Phileo clothed perchance in new garments but 
the same old broken human. 

Agapa is not only the law of the family but it is the 
life of the family and the joy of the family. 

It makes Christianity more beautiful than any of 
the so-called religions of the earth. 

It makes the life of the Saints the sweetest and most 
fragrant of all the human. 

Its prayer under persecution is “Father, forgive them 
for they know not what they do.’’ 

It breathes the fragrance of forgiveness. 

It is bravery clothed in humility. 

It is strength clothed in gentleness. 

It is the bond which binds the family together and 
makes the strong bear the burdens of the weak, the rich 
pay the bills of the poor, the cultured become the com- 
panion of the ignorant. 

It is Christ again manifest among men. 

It compels a new vocabulary to express itself. 

It has no need of the adjectives of satire, of hatred, 
or of jealousy. 

No thorns grow on its roses and no poison lurks in 
its blossoms. 

It is the heart of God pulsating on the lips of his 
children 

It makes home heaven. 


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THE CONTRAST 

Paul sums up the difference between Phileo and 
Agapa in his great poem, the 13th Chapter of 1 
Corinthians. 

“If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels 
but have not Agapa, I am become sounding brass, or 
a clanging cymbal.” 

Paul was a great scholar and knew that the linguistic 
gift was one of the most highly prized. 

He says, If I understand all the languages of the 
earth and if I am able to decipher the hieroglyphics on 
monuments reared by the forgotten nations, if I am able 
to understand the language of the angelic hosts but have 
not Agapa I am become sounding brass or a clanging 
cymbal. 

This strips Christianity of its verbal garment and 
leaves it standing naked. 

This gives the reason for the empty churches, the 
failure of the Sunday School to hold its army of young 
people, the failure of Christianity in business and social 
life. 

Men have become mere sounding brass and clanging 
cymbals. 

This tells why the modern religious periodical goes 
begging for subscribers. 

Sounding brass, clanging cymbal, empty words, 
words, words, words; ever words, only words, empty 
words. 


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The heart searches through them for meat but it only 
finds the husks, the chaff. 

How the hungry heart of the human is crying to the 
Church for Agapa, nothing else has or can satisfy. 

“And if I have the gift of prophecy and know all 
mysteries and all knowledge but have not Agapa, I am 
nothing.” 

Paul is revealing another universal desire of man, 
the gift of prophecy, the ability to foretell the future 
events, to know the solution of the great world prob- 
lems, of the divisions of the nations, the outcome of the 
strife between capital and labor, and the soluton of the 
social problem. 

If one had the gift to read the future, no building 
ever erected would hold the people that would throng 
to hear him speak. 

No author has ever been paid per word the immense 
sum that this writer could demand and get. 

He may possess this wonderful gift, yet if he does 
not have agapa, God says, and his words drip with 
tenderness and tears, “he is nothing.” 

“And if one knows all mysteries and has all know- 
ledge.” Oh, Paul, you are getting down into the 
heart of us now — how we have craved knowledge; 
how we have yearned to roll up the curtain and look 
behind the scenes and there read the revelation of the 
mysteries that surround us; how we have longed to 
know how to obtain electricity without friction, to tap 
the hidden streams of that mighty fluid that flows 
through the universe, to solve the problem of revitaliza- 


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tion of the soil ; yes, yes, and the thousands of unknown 
but imperatively needed utilities to blesg the world. 

Paul tells us that though we know all these things 
but do not have Apapa, “we are nothing.” 

How this awakens, how this startles, how this hurts ! 

Again Paul says, “If I have all faith so as to remove 
mountains but have not Agapa I am nothing.” 

How we have worshipped at the altar of the linguist, 
the God of prophecy and knowledge, how we have 
struggled for this mountain moving faith and yet this 
man, Paul, strikes one blow that shatters all our day 
dreams and cuts the tap root of our ambition. 

Knowledge, wisdom, faith, languages, all these are 
the things the scholastic world is seeking to-day. 

Paul tells us we may have them all, the universities 
of the world may rise up and acclaim us the uncrowned 
king of the scholastic world, yet he whispers in our ear, 
“you are nothing unless Agapa rules your life.” 

This is God’s epitaph upon the dead churches of 
to-day. 

Scholarship has never been able to take the place of 
Agapa. 

“And if I bestow all my goods to feed the poor and 
give my body to be burned,” that is, if one were able to 
feed the poor of this generation, to rear libraries and 
hospitals in every city and town and if one wears his 
body out in philanthropic endeavor and yet does not 
have Agapa it profits him nothing, he has wasted his 
life, it is poured out like water upon a sand-pile. 


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What is this thing without which human endeavor, 
human learning, human achievements, are failures? 

Oh ! it is this new love, the revelation of the heart of 
God that Jesus brought to the earth. 

It is a revelation, but it is more, it is the life of God 
outpoured in our heart, manifesting itself through our 
words and conduct 

It is the pulsation of the heart of God manifesting 
itself in an atmosphere that comes from our spirits, 
blessing and comforting a needy world. 

It is God’s answer to the despairing cry of the 
broken-hearted human. 

Paul tells us that Agapa suffereth long and is kind. 

Phileo may suffer but it grows bitter under the 
burden. 

Agapa envieth not. 

Phileo has always manifested itself in envy and 
jealousy. 

Agapa vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up. 

Phileo has forever vaunted itself, self is the center 
around which it moves. 

If you take selfishness from Phileo it would crumble 
and fall to the ground, that is its very strength. 

Agapa does not behave itself unseemly. 

Phileo airs its grievances in the divorce court, it 
grows wildly jealous and strikes down in cold blood 
the object of its affection. 

Phileo is loud-mouthed and often vulgar. 

Agapa seeketh not its own. 


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The struggle of Phileo from its birth to its death is 
to get and hold its own. 

It is unhappy, it is miserly, it becomes dishonest and 
treacherous, its motto is “all things are fair in love and 

99 

war. 

It is a cruel despot but it is the best this old human 
had from the fall until Jesus came. 

Agapa is not provoked. 

Phileo is sensitive and difficult to handle, it is easily 
provoked, it tells us that it is very sensitive and must not 
be neglected or rudely shocked. 

Sensitiveness is and always has been of the Devil. 

Agapa taketh not account of evil. 

Phileo is always discussing and feasting upon the 
scandals of the world. 

Agapa rejoiceth not in unrighteousness but rejoiceth 
with the truth. 

Phileo can not understand this, it turns to hatred and 
revenge at the slightest provocation and it always re- 
joices in the fall of its enemy and it cannot rejoice with 
the truth if that truth does not gratify its passion. 

Agapa beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth 
all things, endureth all things. 

Agapa never goes bankrupt. 

Phileo squanders its fortune in its youth in riotous 
living, and before it comes to manhood’s strength it is 
in danger of being dashed upon the rocks of failure. 

What is Agapa? 

John tells us that God is Agapa. 

In other words this new thing that Jesus brought to 


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the world is the nature of the great Creator God 
which He intended should permeate all creation, He 
intended that it should be the nature of the animals and 
that it should rule the human, but with the Fall, 
Spiritual Death took its place, and out of this awful 
nature of the Devil springs Hatred, Revenge, and 
Unbelief. 

A spirit of restlessness grips all nature. 

Man and beast to-day, are dominated by this 
foreign, unnatural power; and yet the heart of the 
animal and the heart of the human are sobbing for 
Agapa, when the strong will no longer feed upon the 
weak, when the poor will no longer be exploited by the 
rich, and God shall rule over all. 

Agapa is the New Law of the Church, the Family of 
God. 

Reader, does Agapa govern you or are you still 
dominated by the old corrupt human love? 


CHAPTER 

THE 

FOURTEENTH 

THE HOUSEHOLD OF COD 

The family fact is the basic fact of all Scripture. 

The primal dream of the Creator God was a Family 
of sons and daughters, on whose love and response. His 
Spirit, His heart nature, could feed. 

Rotherham translates Ephesians 1 :5, “In love mark- 
ing us out beforehand unto sonship through Jesus Christ 
unto Himself.” 

God marked us out for the portion and place of sons 
in His Family. 

This Family fact brings clearly to the front this 
great truth, that man is an eternal being. 

He could not have been a son of God and a partaker 
of His nature unless he were like God, and being like 
God he would be eternal and in God’s class. 

Perhaps the most wonderful fact is that God did 
not create the whole human race by one word of His 
power, but He created one man and one woman and 
permitted them to be the father and mother of His 
children. 


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He takes humanity into partnership with Himself, 
and lets us give birth to His joy. 

This shows the eternal responsibility of fatherhood 
and motherhood. 

He could have created the whole human race at one 
time, but this He did not choose to do. 

He preferred to let us have the pleasure of fellow- 
shipping with Him in it. 

In Galatians 6:10, Paul lays down a law in regard 
to the Family: “So then as we have opportunity let us 
work that which is good toward all men and especially 
toward them that are of the Household of Faith.” 

THE FAITH FAMILY 

Here God’s Family is given a very choice name, the 
Household of Faith, the Family of Faith. 

They are beautiful titles, revealing that we are 
blood-brothers; we have partaken of the same nature 
and we are heirs and joint-heirs of Jesus Christ. 

We are God’s Family representatives on the earth. 

We are not a Church 

We are not Methodists, Baptists, Episcopalians, or 
Roman Catholics, but we are God’s sons and daught- 
ers, God’s Family. 

As members of the Family, we are to minister to 
each other, and watch over each other in love. 

In Ephesians 2:19, “So then ye are no more strang- 
ers and sojourners, but ye are fellow-citizens with the 
Saints of the Household of God.” 

We are God’s Household! He is to live with us! 


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Jesus said that, “if we loved Him, we would keep 
His commandments,” and “My Father will love him, 
and we will come unto him and make our home with 
him.” 

God desires to live with His children. 

He does not want to be simply a guest in our home. 

He wants to have the Father’s place in our lives and 
hearts. 

It is a very precious promise that Jesus’ makes, that 
He and the Father will come and make their home with 
us. 

They could then become the Burden-bearers, the 
Comforters, and we could depend upon their wisdom 
and protection in all of life’s hard struggles. 

The Father’s attitude toward us is given by Jesus 
when He says, “The Father Himself loveth you.” 

The Father God Himself yearns over us tenderly, 
loves us. 

In Revelation 3:20, Jesus shows us how He longs 
to come into our homes and sit at the table with us to 
feast with us, (eating together in that great eastern 
country is a very sacred privilege) and He says, “Be- 
hold, I stand at the door and knock: if any man hear 
my voice and will open the door, I will come in to him, 
and will sup with him, and he with me,” fellow- 
shipping on mutual ground. 

How it would change our homes if He did literally 
dwell in them ! 

How much bitterness and unkindness that mar them 
to-day would then be absent! 


234 THE FATHER AND HIS FAMILY 

If Christians could only realize that it is a Family 
affair instead of denominational, the Father would 
mean more to them and they would be able to bring 
greater joy to Him. 

Ephesians 3:14-13, “For this cause I bow my knees 
unto the Father, from whom every Family in Heaven 
and on earth is named.” 

All fatherhood heads up in the great Father God in 
Heaven, and notice it said, “Every family on earth and 
in Heaven;” ours is a Heavenly Family. 

The Greek used here for Family is “Fatherhood.” 

All fatherhood instinct in the animal creation, all 
fatherhood love in the human, comes out of the great 
bosom of our Father God. 

He is the fountain of Fatherhoods. 

Yet in the face of all these facts, should you go to 
one of our ordinary Prayer Meetings throughout all 
our vast number of Churches, you will hardly hear the 
name of Father mentioned once; it is just God; He is 
only God to-day. 

The Churches are simply orphan asylums of father- 
less children who are seeking blindly to get into 
Heaven, and while they stay on earth they try to get 
Him to bless and help when they are in trial or need, 
but He is not a Father. 

He has no Father place in their hearts, and they are 
not children in heart. 

They have imbibed the servant spirit, and they talk 
about being servants of God, but never about being 


sons. 


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And whenever any one speaks of the New Birth, 
they speak of it as adoption not as birth. 

They even carry it out in their teaching, and in their 
lives ; they are only adopted children. 

They have not partaken of the divine nature, they 
have not escaped the corruption of the world which 
comes through union with the Devil. 

If they are sons, they are like the oldest son in the 
story of the Prodigal, that lived with the servants, with 
only a servant spirit. 

No sadder feature of the modern Church can be 
conceived of than the children of God Almighty taking 
the place of servants, utterly ignorant of their sonship 
privileges or responsibilities. 

Paul writes in 1 Timothy 3:15, “that thou mayest 
know how men ought to behave themselves in the House 
of God, which is the church of the Living God, the 
pillar and ground, (or stay) of the truth.” 

“How we ought to behave ourselves” not in a 
Church building when we come together for services or 
fellowship, but in the Family, the Household of God; 
that may mean in your work, or in your pleasures; it 
may mean in the Assembly of the Family. 

Paul is writing to tell us how we ought to act towards 
the Brethren, toward the Sisters, toward the young and 
aged, in this wonderful Household of Faith, this Fam- 
ily of God. 

How few know how to behave themselves ! 

How few understand the etiquette of this Royal 
Family! 


236 THE FATHER AND HIS FAMILY 


How few appreciate their privileges or responsibil- 
ities toward each other ! 

This Family is the pillar, the ground, or more liter- 
ally, the depository of all truth that is in the world 
to-day. 

Paul makes us to understand something that some of 
us have come to know, that truth is not deposited to-day 
with the Scientists, or with our Universities and Col- 
leges, neither in Laboratories nor Gardens of Research, 
but truth is deposited in the Family of God. 

We all realize that only where the Family of God, 
commonly know as the Church, is honored and recog- 
nized, and its voice is heard in the counsels of nations, 
is there any mental, moral, or mechanical growth. 

Heathen nations become civilized in the measure that 
the light of the Revelation of Jesus Christ shines into 
individual hearts. 

The Church then is the depository of the truth. 

Hebrews 3:6 says that this house “whose house are 
we’’ is His House; we are God’s house. 

We are members of the blessed Household of the 
King, sons and daughters of God Almighty. 

These mysterious heavenly bodies that swing in their 
great orbits were created by our Father; they are ours. 

This old earth, now under the dominion of Satan, 
was created in the Beginning as our home. 

This earth is ours to-day, though we are kept from 
our inheritance, but through the Gospel of Jesus Christ 
and the incoming of eternal life into our spirits, we are 
conquering some of the lost territory. 


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237 


The mighty achievements in Electricity, and Avia- 
tion, the new powers of Gasoline, discoveries in Chem- 
istry, enable us to get our hands once more upon some 
of the Edenic authority that was lost through the Great 
T reason. 

1 Peter 2:5 tells us that we are a spiritual House- 
hold, a holy Priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, 
unto God, even the Father through our Lord Jesus 
Christ. 

This is one of the sweetest facts of revelation. 

Spiritual sacrifices here mean love sacrifices, heart 
sacrifices, sacrifices of praise, worship, and love. 

This is the holy, inner relationship with our Father. 

It is the privilege of every member of the Father’s 
Family to have a little time with Him every day in the 
Holy of Holies of his own nature, where his spirit 
fellowships with the Great Father Spirit. 

A place, where we sit and lean against His breast, 
look into His face, and draw inspiration from His love 
and greatness and power, till we finally become imita- 
tors of the loving Father in our conduct with men. 

Wonderful, wonderful, that we can through Jesus 
Christ have hourly communication with our busy 
Father. 

In 1 Peter 2:9 we are called the Royal Priesthood. 

He says, “But ye are an elect race, a royal Priest- 
hood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, 
that ye may show forth the excellencies of Him who 
called you out of darkness into His marvelous light. ’ 

This Scripture is a mine of wealth. 


238 THE FATHER AND HIS FAMILY 


It tells us that we are an elect race and truly we are, 
born of Heaven, permitted to walk here on earth as 
revealers of the heart and nature, the purpose and plan, 
of our Father. 

We are a Royal Priesthood; we are connected with 
the very Throne itself. 

We are as near the heart of the Father God as Jesus. 

We can talk to Him heart to heart, spirit to spirit, 
all the time. 

As a Royal Priesthood it becomes us to wear the 
gorgeous garments of Royalty before the beggarly- 
garmented children of the Devil. 

We are a holy nation; the word “holy” means sepa- 
rated nation. 

We do not belong to the world; we have no part or 
lot in it. 

We belong only to Him and our business is to tell 
out by word and deed the glories and beauties and 
wealth of the love and grace of our Father God. 

1 Peter 4:17, “For the time is come for judgment 
to begin at the House of God: and if it begin first at us, 
what shall be the end of them that obey not the gospel 
of God?” 

Here is one of the most solemn warnings, that God 
is going to judge His own people, and if He does, what 
will become of the Godless world outside of the 
Family? 

This should stir the heart of every child of God to 
examine himself carefully that he may escape the judg- 
ment when it comes. 


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239 


Let us walk worthy of our Family, worthy of the 
traditions of our Great Father God, worthy of such a 
relationship, worthy of such a Family with such a 
Father and such a Savior as our Lord Jesus Christ. 

THE FATHER GOD 

“For the Father, Himself loveth you.’* 

Jesus in this sentence has given us a photograph of 
the Father Heart. 

It is a Father that loves His children. 

It is a Father whose heart is reaching out tenderly 
toward His own Family. 

What comfort there is in this precious thought, that 
the Father himself loves me. 

This means that with all the burdens and cares of 
life the Father Himself loves me. 

Whatever the heartache, whatever the burden, what- 
ever the secret grief, the heart of the great Father God 
yearns over me. 

What strength this puts into the soul, what courage 
to fight the battle when every reason for living has gone 
and Death would be a relief. 

We can take the battle up again and carry it on to 
victory because we know that He loves us. 

As long as we are loved and as long as we can love 
there is a reason for being in the world but when we 
cease to love and cease to be the object of love then 
the reason for being ends. 

Again Jesus tells us that the Father and He will 
come into our homes and will abide there. 


240 THE FATHER AND HIS FAMILY 


“If a man loves me and keeps my commandments 
then my Father and I will come unto him and make 
our abode with him. 

This is such a wonderful promise, that the busy God, 
the hard-working God, the tireless God, He who has 
charge of every form of life, of every star in the uni- 
verse, of every blade of grass, of every flower and tree. 
He whose ear is open to the heart of every human, He 
who is planning the future for every family, that He, 
the busy God, says He will come in and make His 
home with us. 

The heart can hardly take it in that God and Jesus 
will come and dwell in our house. 

The Emperor of the Universe will dwell in our hum- 
ble homes. 

He who is wisdom itself will put up with our 
ignorance. 

The refined, the Holy One will put up with our 
coarse selfishness. 

It does not seem credible that He will live with us 
but He has promised to do it. 

This means bearing our burdens, carrying our loads, 
sharing our poverty, comforting our hearts. 

Oh, what a blessing, what a wonder that this great 
Father heart, this Omnipotent God will come into our 
home and help us rear our children, give us wisdom 
about life’s problems, help us in those dark hours when 
we know not what to do ! 

This is Christianity, it is not serving God but it is 
a child living with his Father. 


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241 


THE FATHER HIMSELF 

E. W. K. 

When your life is sad and lonely. 

And the heart has lost its song ; 

When the days are dark and dreary, 

And the way is rough and long; 

When the burden gets too heavy. 

And the courage gives away, 

Let this blessed message cheer you. 

As you press along the way. 

When your life seems almost worthless 
And you feel you’ve lived in vain; 

When those you’ve helped seem thankless — 
For heart hunger’s worse than pain; 

When you’ve longed for commendation 
For the good you’ve tried to do, 

Let the Master’s message cheer you. 

That the One up there loves you. 

If your friends have proven faithless 
And the heart has suffered loss ; 

If the light of life seems fading. 

You in silence bear the Cross. 

You must learn to conquer sorrow, 

With this song of faith and cheer, 

That your Mighty Father loves you. 

Shields your heart from doubt and fear. 


242 THE FATHER AND HIS FAMILY 


Chorus 

“The Father Himself loveth you;’’ 

“The Father Himself loveth you;” 

When life’s burdens and care. 

Seem too heavy to bear, 

O remember — 

“The Father Himself loveth you.” 

THE ROYAL FAMILY 

The family of God is a Royal Family. 

God is King of the universe and we are His sons and 
daughters. 

We are partakers of His nature. 

We are joint heirs with Christ the Lord. 

We are called His children. 

We are members of the heavenly aristocracy. 

Every flower of this earth, every shrub and plant, 
every rock and mineral, every hidden secret and purpose 
of God are for us or about us. 

The great Father God has only one dream and plan 
and that is for His children. 

Everything in the entire universe centers in this 
Family. 

We are not poor, weak worms of the dust, we are 
sons and daughters of God Most High. 

I’m in the Royal Family, 

My Father God is King; 

The glories of his fellowship 
Forever let me sing. 


THE HOUSEHOLD OF GOD 


243 


My Father God is King, 

My Father God is King, 

I’m in the Royal Family, 

My Father God is King. 

How we disown Him and misuse our Royal stations 
by living below our privileges, by seeking the fellowship 
of man instead of Him, by treating Him as the Secre- 
tary of a Charitable Organization where we go when 
we have used our last resource ! 

How the Father heart yearns for us, craves us, what 
a blessing He has ready to bestow upon us, what riches 
are ours to inherit now, what fellowship, what com- 
munion in the Royal Family. 

God is our Father, we are His children. Sing, Oh, 
my heart! and rejoice in your wonderful inheritance. 


CHAPTER 

THE 

FIFTEENTH 


CLAIMING OUR RIGHTS 

Christianity is a legal document. 

Most of our basic legal terminology comes from the 
Scripture. 

The very titles, Old Covenant and New Covenant, 
are legal terms. 

Every step in the plan of Redemption, from the Fall 
of Man until Jesus Christ was seated at the right hand 
of the Majesty on High, having redeemed the human 
race, is simply a series of legal steps perfecting the most 
remarkable Legal Document the human has in its 
possession. 

The plan of Redemption can not be understood un- 
less one reads it from the legal point of view. 

In this plan of Redemption there are three parties to 
the contract: God, Man, and Satan. 

God must be just to Himself, just to Man, and just 
to the Devil. 

We understand that God created man, placing him 
here on the earth, and that He conferred upon him cer- 
tain legal rights, (legal rights that are conferred are 


CLAIMING OUR RIGHTS 245 

more easily forfeited than those that come by nature), 
these man transferred to Satan, God’s enemy. 

This brings the Devil into the plan so that he must be 
dealt with, and the whole scheme of Redemption is 
God seeking to redeem the human race from Adam’s 
sin, and doing it upon such an equitable basis that it 
will perfectly satisfy the claims of Justice, meet the 
needs of man, and defeat Satan on legal grounds. 

The Fall of Man was a lawful act; that is, Adam 
had a legal right to transfer the authority and dominion 
that God had placed in his hands into the hands of 
another. 

This gave Satan a legal right to rule over man and 
over creation. 

The plan of Redemption is one of the most ingen- 
ious, and most wonderful, of all the many works of 
God. 

Notice what He is obliged to do. 

Man sold himself out to the Devil, making himself 
a bond slave, and that slavery will last until the lease or 
period of man’s dominion expires. 

God must in some way redeem fallen man from his 
sin, and Satan’s dominion. 

He must do it in such a way as not to be unjust to 
Satan, nor unjust to man. 

God must recognize and hold inviolate man’s treach- 
erous act of transference of dominion. 

It was a legal act, and God has no right to arbitrari- 
ly annul it. 

He must show to Satan perfect justice at all points, 


246 THE FATHER AND HIS FAMILY 


and at the same time He must reach man in his helpless- 
ness and redeem him. 

In order to do this, it is necessary that one come to 
the earth who is not a subject of Satan, and yet a man, 
and as a man meet every demand of justice against man. 

In order to accomplish this, there must be an 
Incarnation. 

This Incarnate one must not be a subject of Satan, 
nor a subject of death, and to this end, God sends the 
Holy Spirit to a virgin in Judah and she conceives and 
bears a son. 

This son is born, not of natural generation but of 
supernatural. 

This child is not a subject of death nor of Satan. 

He has the same type of a body that the first man, 
Adam, had before he sinned. 

Every step of the work that was accomplished by this 
Incarnate One was based upon perfectly legal grounds. 

This Incarnate One met the demands, first of the 
heart of Deity for a perfect human that would do His 
will ; second He met the demands of fallen man in that 
as a man He met the Devil and conquered him in hon- 
orable open combat. 

“Being tempted in all points, yet without sin.” 

He goes on the Cross and God lays upon him the 
iniquity of the human race. 

He then, with this burden upon Him and under 
Judgment of God, goes down into Hell and suffers the 
penalty demanded by Justice. 


CLAIMING OUR RIGHTS 247 

When He had paid this penalty, He arose from the 
dead. 

He conquered Satan, He broke his dominion, and 
took away his authority and power. 

Then, with the trophies of His triumph He ascended 
to the right hand of the Majesty on High and laid the 
tokens of His victory at the feet of His Great Father. 

On the ground of this victory, the sinner has a legal 
right to accept Jesus Christ as a personal Savior. 

He has a legal right to Eternal Life. 

He has a legal right to Victory over sin and Satan. 

He has a legal right to a home in Heaven. 

He has a legal right to use the Name of Jesus in 
prayer. 

He has a legal right to his Father’s protection and 
care. 

He has a legal right to a son’s place in the Family of 
God. 

He has a legal right to the indwelling presence of the 
Holy Spirit, to the care and protection of the Spirit, 
and to the intercession and teaching of the Spirit. 

He has a legal right to be translated at the Second 
Coming of the Lord Jesus. 

He has a legal right to immortality for the body. 

He has a legal right to an inheritance in the New 
Heavens and New Earth. 

He has a legal right to live with his Father through 
Eternity. 


248 THE FATHER AND HIS FAMILY 

ARE WE CLAIMING OUR RIGHTS ? 

There is no excuse for the spiritual weakness and 
poverty of the Family of God when the wealth of 
Grace and Love of our great Father with His power 
and wisdom are all at our disposal. 

We are not coming to the Father as a tramp coming 
to the door begging for food, we come as sons not only 
claiming our legal rights but claiming the natural rights 
of a child that is begotten in love. 

No one can hinder us or question our right of ap- 
proach to our Father. 

When we realize the great need of the unsaved 
world and know that need can only be met by the great 
heart of the Father operating through the Church, it 
stirs us to mighty intercession for a needy world. 

God cannot touch the human to-day only through the 
Church, it is His only mediator and if the Church fails 
to assume its obligation then the hand of God is 
powerless. 

It staggers one to realize that God has limited him- 
self to our prayer life and when we refuse to assume 
the obligation of prayer then God’s hands are 
paralyzed. 

OUR AUTHORITY 

“For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye 
are not under law, but under grace.” Rom. 6:14. 

Sin has lost its dominion or authority over us. 

Satan has no legal authority over the New Creation, 
though he has over the old. 


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249 


He is “head over all things,” the highest authority 

Satan has Legal Rights over the sinner that God can 
not dispute or challenge. 

He can sell them as slaves, he owns them body, soul 
and spirit. 

But the moment we are born again — receive Eternal 
Life, the nature of God, his legal right ends. 

Christ is the Legal Head of the New Creation, or 
Family of God, and all the Authority that was given 
Him, He has given us: (Matt. 28:18), “All author- 
ity in heaven,” the seat of authority, and “on earth,” 
the place of execution of authority. 

Eph. 1 :20, “Which he wrought in Christ, when he 
raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right 
hand in the heavenly places.” 

Here He is at the “Right Hand of God.” 

“Far above,” that is, His seat of Authority trans- 
cends all other rulers. 

in the Universe, for the benefit of the Church which is 
His body. 

Phil. 2:9-1 I, “Wherefore also God highly exalted 
him, and gave unto him the name which is above every 
name ; that in the name of Jesus every knee should bow, 
of things in heaven and things on earth and things under 
the earth, and that every tongue should confess that 
Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.” 

He has the Name above every name, in the three 
worlds: Heaven, Earth, and Hell. 

Every demon and angel is subject to the Imperial 


250 THE FATHER AND HIS FAMILY 


Name of Jesus; and, wonder of wonders, He gave us 
the power of Attorney to use that Name of Might. 

All our Authority is based on His Finished Work, 
but it is all enwrapt in His Name. 

By His giving us the Legal use of this name He has 
let us into the use of omnipotence in our combat with 
Satanic hosts. 

Mark 16:1 7-20, “And these signs shall accompany 
them that believe: in my name shall they cast out 
demons; they shall speak with new tongues; they shall 
take up serpents, and if they drink any deadly thing, it 
shall in no wise hurt them; they shall lay hands on the 
sick, and they shall recover. 

“So then the Lord Jesus, after he had spoken unto 
them, was received up into heaven, and sat down at 
the right hand of God. 

“And they went forth, and preached everywhere, 
the Lord working with them, and confirming the word 
by the signs that followed. Amen.’’ 

“In my name shall they cast out demons.” 

Here He defines our Legal Authority. 

We shall cast out demons: this means Authority over 
demons in their relation to men; cast them out of peo- 
ples’ bodies, break their power over those bodies, minds, 
and spirits, break their power over meetings, homes, and 
sometimes communities. 

Our combat is not against flesh and blood but 
against the principalities, and powers in heavenly 
places ; or in other words our war is against demons of 
all ranks, kinds, and authorities. 


CLAIMING OUR RIGHTS 251 

They are attacking the human everywhere, and 
especially the children of God. 

How are we to defend ourselves against them, or 
how lead an assault on their hosts, and deliver the 
captives? 

The air is pregnant with evil spirits who seek to 
infest our bodies as bats do old buildings. 

The awful power of evil in our land eloquently 
proves what we write. 

“In my Name ye shall speak in new tongues.** 

This new and startling manifestation of the Spirit 
is our Legal Right, in the Name, where all the mighty 
powers of God are kept for us. 

We have a right to ask for the manifestation of 
tongues if it can be for His glory, or for the edifica- 
tion of the church. 

“In my Name they shall take up serpents, and if they 
drink any deadly thing it shall not harm them. 

“They shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall 
recover.’’ 

Here it is not sufferance or pity, but Legal Authority. 

You have as much right to demand healing, as you 
have to demand the cashing of a check at a bank where 
you have a deposit. 

You have a Legal Right to deliverance from Satan. 

If any one oppresses you or enslaves you in this 
country, you have a Legal Right to protection from the 
government to which you belong and pay taxes. 

So you have Legal Rights in the Family of God. 

No man has a right to hold a white slave to-day. 


252 THE FATHER AND HIS FAMILY 


neither has Satan a Legal Right to hold a child of God 
in bondage. 

All disease is of the Devil. 

How glad the Father would be if we would arise 

All bad habits are of the Devil, 
and take our Legal Rights. 

John 14:13-14; 15:16; 16:23-24, “And what- 
soever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the 
Father may be glorified in the Son.’’ 

“If ye shall ask anything in my name, that will I 
do.’’ 

“That whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my 
name, he may give it you.’’ 

“And in that day ye shall ask me no question. 

“Verily, verily, I say unto you. If ye ask anything of 
the Father, he will give it you in my name. 

Hitherto ye have asked nothing in my name; ask, 
and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full.” 

Here the Mighty Son of God who is now seated in 
the highest seat of Authority in the Universe gives us 
the Legal Power of Attorney to use the Might, Author- 
ity, and Power of His Name, in our earth struggles 
against Satan and demons. 

In face of this mighty Fact, poverty and weakness of 
spirit are criminal. 

Here all Heaven with its might and Authority are 
at our disposal. 

It is not Faith, but Legal Rights that are yours, as 
much yours as the clothes you wear — as the bed you 
sleep on, — the hat you wear, all yours. 


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253 


Legally, blessedly yours. 

Satan cannot stand before that Name now, any more 
than he could before the Man who gave you the right to 
use it, when He walked in Galilee. 

Disease is as impotent before it now as it was when 
its owner, as the Son of Man, walked on earth. 

Demons fear it to-day in the mouth of a person who 
walks with God, as when they bowed before it in 
Jesus’ Day. 

All Hell knows the power of that Name, they know 
our Legal Rights and Authority. 

So they are fighting to keep us in ignorance of our 
Legal Rights; or if we know them, to keep us under 
condemnation so we will not dare use them. 

Matt. 18:18-20, “Verily I say unto you, what 
things soever ye shall bind on earth shall be bound in 
heaven ; and what things soever ye shall loose on earth 
shall be loosed in heaven. 

“Again I say unto you, that if two of you shall agree 
on earth as touching anything that they shall ask, it 
shall be done for them of my Father who is in Heaven. 

“For where two or three are gathered together in my 
name, there am I in the midst of them.’’ 

Here the heart stands hushed at its power and 
God-delegated Authority. 

“Whatsoever ye shall bind on earth shall be bound 
in heaven.’’ 

This is unexplored territory to most men to-day. 

We can bind Demons, bind disease, and habits, and 
bind men so they can not go on in the will of Satan ; or 


254 THE FATHER AND HIS FAMILY 


use fearsome power to deliver souls over to Satan for 
the destruction of the body. 

“For I verily, being absent in body but present in 
spirit, have already as though I were present judged 
him that hath so wrought this thing, in the name of 
our Lord Jesus, ye being gathered together, and my 
spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus, to deliver 
such a one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, 
that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord 
Jesus.” 1 Cor. 5:3-5. 

Bind the power of Satan over a community. 

“Whatsoever ye shall loose on earth shall be loosed 
in heaven.” 

Whatever in Jesus’ name we set free, God in Heav- 
en will make it good. 

What power we have! Will we ever use it? 

Will we ever arise to our mighty, heaven-given 
privileges ? 

Look at the bound men and women everywhere, and 
the Word challenges us to go out and set the prisoner 
free. 

What does this mean? 

All that it says, thank God. 

Y ou can set diseased men free. 

Y ou can set demon-bound men free ; you can break 
the chains that bind men, in the mighty Name. 

Most Christians are bound in some manner, either in 
testimony or in prayer, by fear and devilish doubt, 
they can be set free by a word if we know how, and 
then take our privileges. 


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What prayer meetings we should have if all the 
Christians were free in prayer and testimony ! 

What sermons if our preachers were free indeed! 

What bondage to the world, and the binding, devil- 
ish spirit of the age we endure, that unseen bondage of 
the god of this age. 

How he holds us in leash ! 

Yet every spirit may be free, yes, as free as Jesus. 

What bondage to the fear of man, yet one author- 
itative word and the bound shall be free. 

What bondage to fear of want that makes men give 
pennies instead of dollars ; yet there is freedom, glorious 
freedom for every bondaged soul. 

Reader! the Spirit is challenging you to arise and 
live this Truth. 

God’s hands are tied until He can use ours. 

Angels are our servants. 

They cannot do our work, God is limited to our 
Faith, our obedience. 

God is as small in the world as we make Him. 

God is big only where some man makes Him big, by 
using this divinely given authority. 

We are the body of Christ, the Head is powerless 
without our hands and feet. 

Oh, men, can’t you see how helpless God is until we 
let Him live omnipotently in our acts ? 

A sin in my heart binds the arms of God that would 
embrace a multitude. 

My fear to be used binds God’s omnipotence. 


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Men of God, be God’s men and use the authority 
delegated to you. 

HOW THE EARLY CHURCH USED THEIR AUTHORITY 

The Book of Acts is largely our Text Book, it is a 
series of stories of the triumphs of the Name of Jesus. 

The first recorded use of their new heaven-con- 
ferred authority is given in the third chapter, the heal- 
ing of the impotent man at the Beautiful Gate. 

How quiet and assured, the apostles say, “In the 
NAME of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, arise, walk.” 

How God responds and the man is healed. 

How the city is again moved, how Judaism is 
shaken ! 

The apostles are arrested, foi bidden to use the name 
or preach in it. 

That NAME has power in it. 

Jesus did no greater miracles when on earth than are 
recorded in the Book of Acts, as done through His 
Name. 

We see Peter striking a man and woman dead for 
lying, awful power this, power to heal and power to 
slay. 

They were walking in the omnipotence of the author- 
ity given them by Jesus. 

They were taking the words of Jesus seriously. 

They were acting as though the Word of God was 
true. 

We have not space to tell of the men who walked 
in the freshness of this grace of God. 


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We see Paul cause blindness to come upon the 
opposers. 

We see him cast out demons from Mediums. 

We see him stung by a viper and no harm come. 

We see the sick healed, the dead raised. 

Whole heathen cities turn toward the unknown God 
of the Jews. 

In thirty-three short years this gospel, backed by 
power from heaven, in the hands of common men was 
carried into every part of the Roman World. 

We see aprons, handkerchiefs, touched by Paul, 
sent out and laid on the sick, do the same mighty acts 
that Paul did in person. 

These men lived in bodies like ours, with passions 
like ours, made mistakes as we do, yet they wrought 
miracles by this God-imparted authority over demons 
and disease. 

They had nothing we may not, do not have. 

They were just men of like passions with us. 

What ails us, why not walk in power instead of 
weakness ? 

Paul could deliver a man over unto Satan for de- 
struction of his body, or as he did Hymeneus and 
Alexander, that they might be taught not to blaspheme. 

(1 Tim. 1:20) 

“Of whom is Hymeneus and Alexander whom I 
delivered unto Satan, that they might be taught not to 
blaspheme.’’ 

Preachers were dangerous in those days. 

Christians had power to prove their claims. 


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They preached, they praciced. They made good. 

“They delivered the goods,” as men say to-day. 

Their Faith stood not in word only, but in demon- 
stration and power. 

Miracles were the common order of the day. 

Christianity was a miracle in their day. 

PERSONAL EXPERIENCE AND OBSERVATION 

The writer has seen hundreds healed, soreness from 
sprains leave while prayer was being offered; swelling 
reduced instantly, ruptures healed like a flash from glo- 
ry ; consumption in last stages healed while praying, all 
soreness and coughing go at once. 

Space forbids giving individual cases. 

But the authority invested in the Name is as mighty 
now as in Paul’s day. 

We have seen demons cast out, men and women set 
free, testimonies restored, power in prayer given. 

We have seen the insane set free instantly. 

We have seen whole communities put under the 
bondage of the spirit so great fear was in them all. 

We have seen other places set free from Satanic 
bondage. 

We have seen God set many free from fear and 
avarice. 

We have seen souls in bondage to habits given liberty 
in a single instant. 

We have seen the drunkard freed from bondage and 
arise free while we were praying. 

Yes, we have Legal Rights, Legal Authority, let us 
live in it. 


CHAPTER 

THE 

SIXTEENTH 


GOD WANTS TRANSFIGURED BODIES 

“I beseech you therefore, Brethren, by the mercies of 
God, to present your bodies, a living sacrifice, holy, 
acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.” 

This is truly a most revolutionary teaching. 

All through the Epistle Paul has been urging with 
mighty argument and appeal and warning, for us to 
submit our souls and spirits to the will of God, the 
Father. 

Now he turns his mighty logic of appeal toward our 
bodies. 

Why is it that he should care anything about our 
bodies that are to perish? 

The secret lies here : our soul and our spirit are both 
tremendously influenced by the habits of our physical 
body. 

No man can live in sweet fellowship with the Father 
with unclean physical habits, for sooner or later these 
habits defile the soul, bind the spirit in bondage, and 
break its fellowship with its great Father God. 


260 THE FATHER AND HIS FAMILY 


If the spirit goes unwillingly into paths that the body 
insists upon going in, sooner or later there is war be- 
tween the body and the spirit, and the spirit usually loses 
the fight. 

Paul asks that our bodies be living sacrifices. 

The Jewish sacrifice was dead. 

He asks now that our bodies shall be fragrant, living 
offerings ascending up, that this body of ours shall not 
only be a free-will offering, a living sacrifice, but that 
it shall be a holy one, a fragrant one. 

This is a heart-searching appeal, asking that these 
bodies of ours be holy, separated from every known 
sin, and cleansed by our own conduct. 

The blood of Jesus Christ cleanses our spirits, but we 
must cleanse our mind and will and heart from evil 
thoughts, our bodies from unclean habits by His grace. 

The Holy Spirit can not keep unclean and impure 
thoughts ©ut of our minds unless we will to have them 
kept out. 

The Holy Spirit can not cleanse our body of dirty, 
evil habits unless we cooperate with Him. 

How fitting it is that the temple in which the renewed 
spirit dwells should be a holy temple, pure, swept and 
cleansed. 

He asks not only for a holy body but also for a 
well-pleasing body for presentation unto God. 

The word “acceptable” really means well-pleasing, 
and he says, “This is our spiritual service,” or worship, 
or a service belonging to reason, would be a literal 
rendering. 


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It would not be reasonable to expect that God was 
going to dwell in a filthy, dirty temple. 

He wants His temple kept clean. 

He wants a clean, sweet, wholesome place in which 
to dwell. 

And then Paul continues, “Be not fashioned accord- 
ing to this age in which you are living, but be ye trans- 
figured by the renewing of your mind, then you will be 
able to prove what is that good, acceptable and perfect 
will of God.” 

I question if any one with a body filled with unclean 
habits will ever know the will of God. 

OUR BODIES AND SINS 

The problem of victory over sin has caused more 
trouble in the individual life of the believer than any 
other one problem. 

Those who teach the Second Work of Grace have 
tried to solve it and have bitterly failed. 

The Dual Nature teachers tried their hand at it but 
made no better success. 

Paul has given us a clear message in regard to it. 

In the Book of Romans after he has dealt with our 
spirits and told us how to get in right relationship with 
God, then in Chapter 6, verse 1 2, he begins to deal 
with this problem. 

Notice what he says, “Let not sin therefore reign in 
your mortal body, that ye should obey the lusts thereof : 
neither present your members unto sin as instruments of 
unrighteousness; but present yourselves unto God, as 


262 THE FATHER AND HIS FAMILY 


alive from the dead, and your members as instruments 
of righteousness unto God. For sin shall not have do- 
minion over you : for ye are not under the law, but under 
grace.” 

Sin operates almost altogether through the members 
of our bodies. 

By members Paul and Jesus and James mean the 
tongue, the eyes, the ears, the hands, and the feet and 
the other organs of our bodies. 

Practically all the sins ever committed have been 
committed through some of these organs, or these mem- 
bers of the body. 

Jesus told us in His Sermon on the Mount that it 
were better to pluck our eye out, than have it cause our 
whole body to be cast into the Lake of Fire, that it was 
better to cut our right hand off than have that hand 
cause our whole body to be cast into the Lake of Fire. 

James tells us that the tongue is a little member 
set on fire of Hell which will start a conflagration that 
no fire company will be able to control. 

Notice in this Scripture, ‘‘Let not sin reign in your 
mortal body,” literally let not sin reign as king in that 
death-doomed body of yours that you obey the lusts 
wants your body cleaned up. 

Before accepting Christ you had evil habits, you said 
things, sang things, told things with your mouth which, 
if you repeat them now will break your fellowship with 
the Father. 

You ate and drank things that if you eat or drink 
now perhaps will destroy your spiritual life. 


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You may have had other habits but those must be 
discontinued, the deeds of the past must be slain. 

In Romans 8: “If ye put to death the deeds of the 
body, ye shall live” then in right relationship to God. 

The body itself is not wrong, there is no evil in it; 
it is only if you submit it to practices that are wrong. 

There are other members of the body, the hands and 
feet that must not touch things nor handle things nor 
lead you where it will injure your spiritual life. 

“Being made free from sin, ye became servants of 
righteousness. I speak after the manner of men because 
of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye presented your 
members as servants to uncleanness and to iniquity, even 
so now present your members as servants to righteous- 
ness unto sanctification.” 

The one who can keep the body under, rule it, will 
be able to live a life well-pleasing to the Father in un- 
broken fellowship; but if one permits the body to sin 
against the spirit, the Devil rules his life. 

Clean your hands and your dreams, allow nothing 
in your heart life that will in any wise tarnish the spirit 
and break your fellowship and joy, full of the wealth 
of Heaven. 

The problem of sanctification in the New Testament 
is a problem of the body. 

In nearly every Scripture where the word sanctifica- 
tion or holiness is used it is in connection with the physi- 
cal body. 

1 Thessalonians 4:3-8, “For this is the will of God, 
even your sanctification, that ye abstain from fornica- 


264 THE FATHER AND HIS FAMILY 

tion; that each one of you know how to possess himself 
of his own vessel in sanctification and honor, not in the 
passion of lust, even as the Gentiles who know not 
God; that no man transgress, and wrong his brother in 
the matter: because the Lord is an avenger in all these 
things, as also we forewarned you and testified. 

“For God called us not for uncleanness, but in sanc- 
tification.” 

Y ou notice here that it is a setting apart of our phy- 
sical body to holy use and the word is used in the same 
sense in the 6th Chapter of Romans. 

Y ou remember that the Greek word for holiness and 
sanctification come from the same root, separate or set 
apart, just as the Temple was set apart for the worship 
of Jehovah so now our bodies, indwelt by the Holy 
Spirit are set apart, sanctified completely unto the Lord. 


CHAPTER 

THE 

SEVENTEENTH 

MORTALITY AND IMMORTALITY 

When God created man He created him to be His 
eternal companion. 

Man, as stated in Eccles. 3:1 1, “has eternity set in 
his heart;” in other words, man is an eternal being; he 
belongs to God’s class. 

Man does not belong to the animal creation, for the 
animal belongs to time, but man to eternity. 

When man was created, he was made a perfect hu- 
man being. 

His body was eternal. 

It would seem as though God’s original scheme was 
for man to live eternally as a physical being. 

Physiologists tell us that the human body has the 
power of renewing itself every seven years, and some of 
our latest scientists tell us they see no reason why man 
shouldn’t live eternally in his physical body, that they 
can see no reason why death should slay him. 

Here again is where Science is in perfect harmony 
with the Scriptures. 


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THE FATHER AND HIS FAMILY 


All the plan of the New Heavens and the New 
Earth are for man with his physical body that will live 
eternally. 

When man was first created he was not mortal, 
neither was he immortal. 

The word “mortal” in both the Hebrew and the 
Greek means subject to death, frail, limited, in other 
words, a subject of the Devil, for death did not come 
to man until he became a subject of Satan. 

The moment that he committed treason and became 
Satan’s subject Satan breathed into him his own nature 
and man died in spirit ; this is the primal basic death. 

Then this spiritual death began to operate upon his 
physical body and it took nearly a thousand years be- 
fore it could work out physical death or dissolution, but 
it eventually succeeded and Adam died at the age of 
nine hundred and thirty odd years. 

It took several thousand years before man’s life was 
brought under a hundred years. 

Adam, at the beginning was not a subject of death ; 
death had no dominion over him whatever. 

Just as the water can be contaminated but has the 
power of purifying itself, so man physically had the 
power of rejuvenation, of physical recreation, so that 
he would have eternally existed in the body, but when 
he sinned he instantly became mortal, subject to Satan 
and subject to death. 

Perhaps one of the most striking facts in this connec- 
tion is the name Adam gave to his first grandchild. 

According to Genesis 5:6 he names that child 


MORTALITY AND IMMORTALITY 26 7 


Enosh, which literally means mortal, frail, Satan-ruled. 

How Adam’s sin and treason must have clung to his 
memory ! 

How it must have overwhelmed every other thing in 
his mind for him to name his first grandchild, 
“Mortal!” 

The blood of Abel was still crimsoning his memory. 

His awful sin in the garden haunted him day and 
night. 

Immortality is something that comes to the Believer 
and to the Believer only at the Second Coming of the 
Lord Jesus. 

The word “immortal” is never applied to the soul 
as heathen writers have used it. 

Men often speak of our “immortal soul”; our soul 
is neither mortal or immortal. 

Our souls are eternal. 

It is our bodies that to-day are mortal, but if we have 
received eternal life, at the Second Coming of the Lord 
Jesus we shall receive immortality for our bodies. 

Adam was not mortal neither was he immortal, he 
was a perfect human. 

Jesus had the same kind of a physical body that 
Adam had. 

He was not conceived of natural generation so He 
did not partake of mortality from His mother. 

They could not kill Jesus until He became our sin- 
substitute. 

He says in John 10:18, “I have power to lay down 


268 THE FATHER AND HIS FAMILY 


my life and power to take it up again ; no one can take 
it from me.” 

That authority had been given Him by His Father. 

When Jesus suffered upon die Cross, the Father took 
our sin nature, spiritual death, and laid it upon the spir- 
it of His Son. 

The moment He did this, Jesus became mortal, sub- 
ject to death, subject to Satan. 

This point will be taken up at greater length in 
another chapter. 

When Jesus arose from the dead, immortality was 
given to His body and He took that body with Him up 
into Heaven and to-day He is seated at the right hand 
of the Majesty on High, with an immortal physical 
body, the same kind that we are going to have when He 
returns. 


RESURRECTION 

The resurrection of the human body and its immor- 
tality are perfectly natural as well as inevitable when 
one understands the Plan of Redemption. 

Man has no desire to be a disembodied spirit to float 
through space, he wants his physical body all his life 
whether it be a dream life or the actual human fighting 
life. 

He has been connected with the physical body and 
when you take the physical body away you have robbed 
him of the first asset of life. 

Jesus not only told of the resurrection clearly but so 
do the writers of the Epistles. 


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As Jesus was raised so we shall be raised. 

Jesus has an immortal body and we shall have an 
immortal body, if Jesus has His immortal body so we 
shall have ours at His return. 

It is not only an immortal body but it is our own 
body or else there will not be a resurrection only, but a 
new creation into which we enter, no bona fide resur- 
rection unless it be a resurrection of the same body. 

We shall recognize each other and enjoy in each 
other the same things we have enjoyed here in the 
physical condition. 

Only perfect bodies will enter into the perfect Eter- 
nal Existence in the New Heaven and the New Earth. 

To deny a resurrection means to deny the very Plan 
of Redemption. 

Paul declares that this mortal will put on immortal- 
ity and this corruptible put on incorruption: “so also is 
the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption ; 
it is raided in ir.corruption: it is sown in weakness; it 
is raised in power; it is sown in the natural body; it is 
raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, 
there is a spiritual body.’* 

He tells us “we all shall not sleep, but we shall all 
be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at 
the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound and the 
dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be 
changed.*’ 

This is the climax of everything in the entire Plan 
of redemption and to deny the climax is to reduce the 
whole plan to the scrap heap. 


270 THE FATHER AND HIS FAMILY 


We are to be raised, these physical bodies* of ours 
shall be inhabited by ourselves. 

Man is himself a spirit but dwells in a physical body, 
has an intellect through which he thinks, sensibilities 
through which he loves, a will through which he chooses 
and selectp, and a spirit through which he loves God. 

This is full evidence that one day the bodies of our 
loved ones shall be raised from the dead and they them- 
selves return from heaven, as it tells us in Thessalon- 
ians, and “be clothed upon’* with these raised bodies, 
and then enter the unexplored realities of the New 
Heaven and the New Earth. 

THE NEW HEAVEN AND THE NEW EARTH 

The universal man has a tradition of a golden age 
when there was no sin nor death to mar the earth or the 
human race, when man and God walked together in 
happy fellowship. 

It has another dream of a golden age that is to come 
when death will be no more, and sin and pain, hatred 
and sorrow shall be not even a dream. 

The North American Indian calls it his Happy 
Hunting-ground. 

Every language has its own name for it, it is the 
universal demand of the human. 

The most degraded of earth’s millions have a hope 
of a New Heaven and a New Earth; although it may 
be grotesque, nevertheless the hope, the dream is there. 

The Scriptures clearly teach of the glory of man at 
the beginning of the world without sin, without death, 


MORTALITY AND IMMORTALITY 271 


without the curse, where love ruled over the animal and 
the human kingdom. 

We have the story of how through man’s treason sin 
came and Death began her fearful dominion of dev- 
astation, but the Scriptures point with unerring clearness 
to another golden age where sin can never come, where 
death and pain and tears will never intrude. 

Paul tells us in Romans 8 that the earnest expecta- 
tion of the creation waits for the revelation of the sons 
of God, for the creation was subjected to vanity 
(that is, to the Devil) not of its own will but by reason 
of him (that is, Adam) who subjected it, but creation 
has a hope that it shall also be delivered out of the 
bondage of corruption into the liberty of the glory of 
the children of God, for we know that the whole crea- 
tion groans and travails in pain together even until now. 

It is waiting for the coming of the Lord Jesus when 
the long humiliated Church shall suddenly come into 
her own. 

Satan shall be bound and cast into his prison house, 
his long dominion over, and the sons and daughters of 
God burst forth into the glory with their immortal 
bodies, into the never ending ages of a glorious 
Eternity. 

John tells us in Revelation that when Death, the last 
enemy is cast into the Lake of Fire, then will come forth 
the New Heaven and the New Earth and the first 
heaven and the first earth shall pass away and the sea 
shall be no more. 

God will never permit to come into our New Heaven 


272 THE FATHER AND HIS FAMILY 


one star or planet to remind us of the old sin life and 
heartaches of this age, he even says that the “sea shall 
be no more,” it shall not remind us of the death of loved 
ones who have sunk beneath its pitiless waves. 

He shall wipe away all tears and there shall be no 
more crying nor pains, nothing to remind us of the old 
life, these things shall pass away and He will make all 
things new and the Church will then enter into its vast 
inheritance. 

Paul tells us in Ephesians that in the days to come 
the Great Father God is going to give us the wealth 
and riches that He has stored up in His great love dur- 
ing the Eternity of the past for us. 

Oh, the glorious truth of the wealth, the riches, the 
joy that belongs to God’s family! 

Through the ages of the ages we are going to know 
one another talk with one another, enjoy heavenly bliss 
eternally. 

There will be light without our old sun, because 
darkness would remind us of the sin life of the past; 
there will be one Eternal Day with no fatigue, no sor- 
row, and no pain. 

Blessed be the hope of the New Heaven and the 
New Earth. 






